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RoboSpice or Retrofit or Volley? [closed]

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After going through the ways of calling web service calls in android.It's not recommended to use AsyncTask because of issues like device configuration change.
And Loaders are mainly used for interacting with database and Services mostly for long running operations.
Many answers says, to use libraries like Volley or Robospice or Retrofit.
What would be the most efficient one among them?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I came across different approaches in the past years and applied some of them in the real apps and some of them in some simple proof of concepts.
Here's my opinion:
The best option for communication with web services in Android is Retrofit + RxJava
Retrofit is compatible with RxJava. With such approach, you have clean and simple interface, you are able to handle errors and manipulate HTTP responses as Observable streams thanks to RxJava. Such approach is becoming good practice and standard for Android applications right now.

Android application in nodejs [closed]

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I am trying to make an application for android using node.js. As far as I searched, I found anode. But is there any proper tutorial or example to get started? I have no idea how.

As a junior Android Developer I think this is not a good idea because mainly the major issue in android development are the layouts and some API (at least for me)... If you want to go with async and node-like dev on android try rxjava

I would go through a java tutorial first before you try to look into node. The fact of the matter is you are not going to find as many resources for node as you will for java. Once you are super familiar with the android stack it should be easy to write it in node with little documentation.

AFNetworking for Android [closed]

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I am in the process of porting my iOS app to Android, and am now in need of a simple to use asynchronous class set to download JSON data and images.
For iOS I am using AFNetworking which is an amazing tool. Is there anything like that for Android?

There's loop j's async http lib for Android (though I'm not a huge fan) http://loopj.com/android-async-http/. Honestly, best thing is just to use apache httpclient inside of an intentservice so it's async and then deliver the results to your activities, etc through a ResultReceiver.
UPDATE
I now recommend Retrofit, an open-source project from Square. I use it and it works very well as a REST client. http://square.github.io/retrofit/

You could try RoboSpice. Give us feedback, if it was, what you needed.

Another good option could be Volley, networking library introduced on IO 2013 by Google. For more info check this topic: Volley Android Networking Library

This lib is awesome. i think is all you want give a try dude
https://code.google.com/p/android-query/wiki/AsyncAPI

Is there a tool like mechanize for Android? [closed]

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I'm creating an Android app which must do some web surfing in the background in order to provide a service to the user.
The site I must connect to has no API, it only provides standard HTTP access, with extensive cookie usage but (luckily for me) not much Javascript code.
I wonder if there is a library which behaves like python mechanize for Android, or if it's possible to use mechanize itself in the Android app.

I'm not 100% sure it'll work in Android, but being Java-based, HtmlUnit is probably worth a look.

Mechanize has been ported to Java, and does run in Android:
http://gistlabs.com/software/mechanize-for-java/

Which framework should I use to run OData APIs on Android? [closed]

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I am creating a program for Android mobiles which will query, retrieve and then process OData from an OData provider via a webservice.
Please can you tell me which toolkit is best for this? I have seen these:
odata4j
restlet
Thanks.

Restlet is very straightforward, although the performance is not the best. Check this article: Accessing oData from Android using Restlet.
odata4j might be more performant according to this answer.

Hey, I have been using restlet, it's extremely slow! I think it wouldn't be so difficult for you to write a parser yourself, there are many XML or JSON available nowadays. And consume an Odata service only needs a simple Apache Client!