Simple web request with Java on Android

webRequest.java

            URL apiUrl = null;
            int statusCode = 0;
            String responseData = "";


            try {
                // setup new web request parameters
                apiUrl = new URL("http://api.site.com");
                HttpURLConnection connection = null;
                connection = (HttpURLConnection) apiUrl.openConnection();
                connection.setRequestProperty("Accept-Encoding", "identity"); // disables gzip compression

                // make the request
                connection.connect();
                statusCode = connection.getResponseCode();
                InputStream thisIsStupid =  connection.getInputStream();
                Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(thisIsStupid);
                int contentLength = connection.getContentLength();
                char charArray[] = new char[contentLength];
                reader.read(charArray);
                responseData = new String(charArray);


            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();

            }

Please, stop learning to code in Java and stop teaching people to code in Java. We aren't going to ever make this terrible language die as long as people accept this level of terrible as 'OK'. This is not 'OK'.