Example of a thread safe HttpClient in Android.

gistfile1.java

public static DefaultHttpClient getThreadSafeClient() {

    DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
    ClientConnectionManager mgr = client.getConnectionManager();
    HttpParams params = client.getParams();

    client = new DefaultHttpClient(
        new ThreadSafeClientConnManager(params,
            mgr.getSchemeRegistry()), params);

    return client;
}