ReadFromWeb.java

URL apod = new URL(APOD_URL);
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) apod.openConnection();
InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
String jsonContent = br.readLine();
apodData = new JSONObject(jsonContent);

// You can also do the following if there's more than one line of JSON
StringBuilder jsonBuilder = new StringBuilder();
String line;
while (line = br.readLine() != null) {
jsonBuilder.append(line);
}
String jsonContent = jsonBuilder.toString();