URL url = new URL(urlToRssFeed);
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser();
XMLReader xmlreader = parser.getXMLReader();
RssHandler theRSSHandler = new RssHandler();
xmlreader.setContentHandler(theRSSHandler);
InputSource is = new InputSource(url.openStream());
xmlreader.parse(is);
return theRSSHandler.getFeed();

android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException

class RetrieveFeedTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, RSSFeed> {

    private Exception exception;

    protected RSSFeed doInBackground(String... urls) {
        try {
            URL url = new URL(urls[0]);
            SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
            SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser();
            XMLReader xmlreader = parser.getXMLReader();
            RssHandler theRSSHandler = new RssHandler();
            xmlreader.setContentHandler(theRSSHandler);
            InputSource is = new InputSource(url.openStream());
            xmlreader.parse(is);

            return theRSSHandler.getFeed();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            this.exception = e;

            return null;
        } finally {
            is.close();
        }
    }

    protected void onPostExecute(RSSFeed feed) {
        // TODO: check this.exception
        // TODO: do something with the feed
    }
}

new RetrieveFeedTask().execute(urlToRssFeed);

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

StrictMode.ThreadPolicy policy = new StrictMode.ThreadPolicy.Builder().permitAll().build();

StrictMode.setThreadPolicy(policy);

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

Thread thread = new Thread(new Runnable() {

    @Override
    public void run() {
        try  {
            //Your code goes here
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
});

thread.start();

import android.app.IntentService;
import android.app.PendingIntent;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.util.Log;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;

public class DownloadIntentService extends IntentService {

    private static final String TAG = DownloadIntentService.class.getSimpleName();

    public static final String PENDING_RESULT_EXTRA = "pending_result";
    public static final String URL_EXTRA = "url";
    public static final String RSS_RESULT_EXTRA = "url";

    public static final int RESULT_CODE = 0;
    public static final int INVALID_URL_CODE = 1;
    public static final int ERROR_CODE = 2;

    private IllustrativeRSSParser parser;

    public DownloadIntentService() {
        super(TAG);

        // make one and re-use, in the case where more than one intent is queued
        parser = new IllustrativeRSSParser();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) {
        PendingIntent reply = intent.getParcelableExtra(PENDING_RESULT_EXTRA);
        InputStream in = null;
        try {
            try {
                URL url = new URL(intent.getStringExtra(URL_EXTRA));
                IllustrativeRSS rss = parser.parse(in = url.openStream());

                Intent result = new Intent();
                result.putExtra(RSS_RESULT_EXTRA, rss);

                reply.send(this, RESULT_CODE, result);
            } catch (MalformedURLException exc) {
                reply.send(INVALID_URL_CODE);
            } catch (Exception exc) {
                // could do better by treating the different sax/xml exceptions individually
                reply.send(ERROR_CODE);
            }
        } catch (PendingIntent.CanceledException exc) {
            Log.i(TAG, "reply cancelled", exc);
        }
    }
}

<service
        android:name=".DownloadIntentService"
        android:exported="false"/>

PendingIntent pendingResult = createPendingResult(
    RSS_DOWNLOAD_REQUEST_CODE, new Intent(), 0);
Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), DownloadIntentService.class);
intent.putExtra(DownloadIntentService.URL_EXTRA, URL);
intent.putExtra(DownloadIntentService.PENDING_RESULT_EXTRA, pendingResult);
startService(intent);

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    if (requestCode == RSS_DOWNLOAD_REQUEST_CODE) {
        switch (resultCode) {
            case DownloadIntentService.INVALID_URL_CODE:
                handleInvalidURL();
                break;
            case DownloadIntentService.ERROR_CODE:
                handleError(data);
                break;
            case DownloadIntentService.RESULT_CODE:
                handleRSS(data);
                break;
        }
        handleRSS(data);
    }
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
}

new Thread(new Runnable(){
    @Override
    public void run() {
        // Do network action in this function
    }
}).start();

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT > 9) {
    StrictMode.ThreadPolicy policy =
        new StrictMode.ThreadPolicy.Builder().permitAll().build();
    StrictMode.setThreadPolicy(policy);
}

new Thread(new Runnable(){
    @Override
    public void run() {
        try {
            // Your implementation goes here
        }
        catch (Exception ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}).start();

new Thread(new Runnable(){
    @Override
    public void run() {
        try {
            // Your implementation
        }
        catch (Exception ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}).start();

class DemoTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {

    protected Void doInBackground(Void... arg0) {
        //Your implementation
    }

    protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
        // TODO: do something with the feed
    }
}

// normal method
private void normal() {
    doSomething(); // do something in background
}

@Background
protected void doSomething()
    // run your networking code here
}

AsyncHttpClient client = new AsyncHttpClient();
client.get("http://www.google.com", new AsyncHttpResponseHandler() {

    @Override
    public void onStart() {
        // Called before a request is started
    }

    @Override
    public void onSuccess(int statusCode, Header[] headers, byte[] response) {
        // Called when response HTTP status is "200 OK"
    }

    @Override
    public void onFailure(int statusCode, Header[] headers, byte[] errorResponse, Throwable e) {
        // Called when response HTTP status is "4XX" (for example, 401, 403, 404)
    }

    @Override
    public void onRetry(int retryNo) {
        // Called when request is retried
    }
});

RSSFeed feed = new RetreiveFeedTask().execute(urlToRssFeed).get();

<uses-sdk
        android:minSdkVersion="8"
        android:targetSdkVersion="10" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor().submit(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        // You can perform your task here.
    }
});

**Use like this in Your Activity**

    btnsub.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
    {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v)
        {
            new Thread(new Runnable() {

                @Override
                public void run() {
                    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

            //Initialize soap request + add parameters
            SoapObject request = new SoapObject(NAMESPACE, METHOD_NAME1);

            //Use this to add parameters


            request.addProperty("pincode",txtpincode.getText().toString());
            request.addProperty("bg",bloodgroup.getSelectedItem().toString());

            //Declare the version of the SOAP request
            SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope = new SoapSerializationEnvelope(SoapEnvelope.VER11);

            envelope.setOutputSoapObject(request);
            envelope.dotNet = true;

            try {

                HttpTransportSE androidHttpTransport = new HttpTransportSE(URL);

                //this is the actual part that will call the webservice
                androidHttpTransport.call(SOAP_ACTION1, envelope);

                // Get the SoapResult from the envelope body.
                SoapObject result = (SoapObject)envelope.getResponse();
                Log.e("result data", "data"+result);
                 SoapObject root = (SoapObject) result.getProperty(0);
             //   SoapObject s_deals = (SoapObject) root.getProperty(0);
                //SoapObject s_deals_1 = (SoapObject) s_deals.getProperty(0);
                   //


                System.out.println("********Count : "+  root.getPropertyCount());

                value=new ArrayList<Detailinfo>();

                for (int i = 0; i < root.getPropertyCount(); i++)
                {
                    SoapObject s_deals = (SoapObject) root.getProperty(i);
                    Detailinfo info=new Detailinfo();

                    info.setFirstName(     s_deals.getProperty("Firstname").toString());
                    info.setLastName( s_deals.getProperty("Lastname").toString());
                    info.setDOB( s_deals.getProperty("DOB").toString());
                    info.setGender( s_deals.getProperty("Gender").toString());
                    info.setAddress( s_deals.getProperty("Address").toString());
                    info.setCity( s_deals.getProperty("City").toString());
                    info.setState( s_deals.getProperty("State").toString());
                    info.setPinecode( s_deals.getProperty("Pinecode").toString());
                    info.setMobile( s_deals.getProperty("Mobile").toString());
                    info.setEmail( s_deals.getProperty("Email").toString());
                    info.setBloodgroup( s_deals.getProperty("Bloodgroup").toString());
                    info.setAdddate( s_deals.getProperty("Adddate").toString());
                    info.setWaight(s_deals.getProperty("waight").toString());
                    value.add(info);

                }


            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            Intent inten=new Intent(getApplicationContext(),ComposeMail.class);
            //intent.putParcelableArrayListExtra("valuesList", value);

            startActivity(inten);



                }
            }).start();
        }
    });

Ion.with(context)
.load("http://example.com/thing.json")
.asJsonObject()
.setCallback(new FutureCallback<JsonObject>() {
   @Override
    public void onCompleted(Exception e, JsonObject result) {
        // do stuff with the result or error
    }
});

http://api.example.com/stocks                       //ResponseWrapper<String> object containing a list of Srings with ticker symbols
http://api.example.com/stocks/$symbol               //Stock object
http://api.example.com/stocks/$symbol/prices        //PriceHistory<Stock> object
http://api.example.com/currencies                   //ResponseWrapper<String> object containing a list of currency abbreviation
http://api.example.com/currencies/$currency         //Currency object
http://api.example.com/currencies/$id1/values/$id2  //PriceHistory<Currency> object comparing the prices of the first currency (id1) to the second (id2)

implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.3.0' //retrofit library, current as of September 21, 2017
implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-gson:2.3.0' //gson serialization and deserialization support for retrofit, version must match retrofit version

public interface FinancesApi {
    @GET("stocks")
    Call<ResponseWrapper<String>> listStocks();
    @GET("stocks/{symbol}")
    Call<Stock> getStock(@Path("symbol")String tickerSymbol);
    @GET("stocks/{symbol}/prices")
    Call<PriceHistory<Stock>> getPriceHistory(@Path("symbol")String tickerSymbol);

    @GET("currencies")
    Call<ResponseWrapper<String>> listCurrencies();
    @GET("currencies/{symbol}")
    Call<Currency> getCurrency(@Path("symbol")String currencySymbol);
    @GET("currencies/{symbol}/values/{compare_symbol}")
    Call<PriceHistory<Currency>> getComparativeHistory(@Path("symbol")String currency, @Path("compare_symbol")String currencyToPriceAgainst);
}

public class FinancesApiBuilder {
    public static FinancesApi build(String baseUrl){
        return new Retrofit.Builder()
                    .baseUrl(baseUrl)
                    .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
                    .build()
                    .create(FinancesApi.class);
    }
}

FinancesApi api = FinancesApiBuilder.build("http://api.example.com/"); //trailing '/' required for predictable behavior
api.getStock("INTC").enqueue(new Callback<Stock>(){
    @Override
    public void onResponse(Call<Stock> stockCall, Response<Stock> stockResponse){
        Stock stock = stockCall.body();
        //do something with the stock
    }
    @Override
    public void onResponse(Call<Stock> stockCall, Throwable t){
        //something bad happened
    }
}

implementation 'com.android.volley:volley:1.0.0'

public class ImageFetch {
    private static ImageLoader imageLoader = null;
    private static RequestQueue imageQueue = null;

    public static ImageLoader getImageLoader(Context ctx){
        if(imageLoader == null){
            if(imageQueue == null){
                imageQueue = Volley.newRequestQueue(ctx.getApplicationContext());
            }
            imageLoader = new ImageLoader(imageQueue, new ImageLoader.ImageCache() {
                Map<String, Bitmap> cache = new HashMap<String, Bitmap>();
                @Override
                public Bitmap getBitmap(String url) {
                    return cache.get(url);
                }
                @Override
                public void putBitmap(String url, Bitmap bitmap) {
                    cache.put(url, bitmap);
                }
            });
        }
        return imageLoader;
    }
}

<com.android.volley.toolbox.NetworkImageView
    android:id="@+id/profile_picture"
    android:layout_width="32dp"
    android:layout_height="32dp"
    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    app:srcCompat="@android:drawable/spinner_background"/>

NetworkImageView profilePicture = view.findViewById(R.id.profile_picture);
profilePicture.setImageUrl("http://example.com/users/images/profile.jpg", ImageFetch.getImageLoader(getContext());

HandlerThread handlerThread = new HandlerThread("URLConnection");
handlerThread.start();
handler mainHandler = new Handler(handlerThread.getLooper());

Runnable myRunnable = new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        try {
            Log.d("Ravi", "Before IO call");
            URL page = new URL("http://www.google.com");
            StringBuffer text = new StringBuffer();
            HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) page.openConnection();
            conn.connect();
            InputStreamReader in = new InputStreamReader((InputStream) conn.getContent());
            BufferedReader buff = new BufferedReader(in);
            String line;
            while ( (line =  buff.readLine()) != null) {
                text.append(line + "n");
            }
            Log.d("Ravi", "After IO call");
            Log.d("Ravi",text.toString());

        }catch( Exception err){
            err.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
};
mainHandler.post(myRunnable);

new Thread() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        try {
            //Your code goes here
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}.start();

String getUrl() {
    return "SomeUrl";
}

private Object makeCallParseResponse(String url) {
    return null;
    //
}

private void processResponse(Object o) {

}

rx.Observable.defer(new Func0<rx.Observable<String>>() {
    @Override
    public rx.Observable<String> call() {
        return rx.Observable.just(getUrl());
    }
})
    .subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
    .observeOn(Schedulers.io())
    .map(new Func1<String, Object>() {
        @Override
        public Object call(final String s) {
            return makeCallParseResponse(s);
        }
    })
    .observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
    .subscribe(new Action1<Object>() {
        @Override
        public void call(Object o) {
             processResponse(o);
        }
    },
    new Action1<Throwable>() {
        @Override
        public void call(Throwable throwable) {
            // Process error here, it will be posted on
            // the main thread
        }
    });

compile 'io.reactivex:rxjava:1.1.5'
   compile 'io.reactivex:rxandroid:1.2.0'

Observable<List<String>> musicShowsObservable = Observable.fromCallable(new Callable<List<String>>() {

  @Override
  public List<String> call() {
    return mRestClient.getFavoriteMusicShows();
  }
});

mMusicShowSubscription = musicShowsObservable
.subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
.observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
.subscribe(new Observer<List<String>>() {

    @Override
    public void onCompleted() { }

    @Override
    public void onError(Throwable e) { }

    @Override
    public void onNext(List<String> musicShows){
        listMusicShows(musicShows);
    }
});

public class MyDownloader extends AsyncTask<String,Void,Bitmap>
    {
        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute() {
            // Show progress dialog
            super.onPreExecute();
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(Bitmap bitmap) {
            //Populate Ui
            super.onPostExecute(bitmap);
        }

        @Override
        protected Bitmap doInBackground(String... params) {
            // Open URL connection read bitmaps and return form here
            return result;
        }

        @Override
        protected void onProgressUpdate(Void... values) {
            // Show progress update
            super.onProgressUpdate(values);
        }


    }
}