Easy way to get JSON especially for Android SDK 23:
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { Button btnHit; TextView txtJson; ProgressDialog pd; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); btnHit = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnHit); txtJson = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tvJsonItem); btnHit.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { new JsonTask().execute("Url address here"); } }); } private class JsonTask extends AsyncTask<String, String, String> { protected void onPreExecute() { super.onPreExecute(); pd = new ProgressDialog(MainActivity.this); pd.setMessage("Please wait"); pd.setCancelable(false); pd.show(); } protected String doInBackground(String... params) { HttpURLConnection connection = null; BufferedReader reader = null; try { URL url = new URL(params[0]); connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); connection.connect(); InputStream stream = connection.getInputStream(); reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream)); StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer(); String line = ""; while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { buffer.append(line+"\n"); Log.d("Response: ", "> " + line); //here u ll get whole response...... :-) } return buffer.toString(); } catch (MalformedURLException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } finally { if (connection != null) { connection.disconnect(); } try { if (reader != null) { reader.close(); } } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } return null; } @Override protected void onPostExecute(String result) { super.onPostExecute(result); if (pd.isShowing()){ pd.dismiss(); } txtJson.setText(result); } } }