While it's easy to use twisted or tornado for non SSL features, most apps will need SSL. To avoid having to compile, link, and include SSL libs (which increases the app size by 5MB at a minimum in my testing) an AsyncHttpClient for doing https requests using Loopj is currently implemented.
Loopj does not support websockets and it doesn't look like they will. OkHttp does, so I think that's enough of a reason to switch.
While it's easy to use twisted or tornado for non SSL features, most apps will need SSL. To avoid having to compile, link, and include SSL libs (which increases the app size by 5MB at a minimum in my testing) an AsyncHttpClient for doing https requests using Loopj is currently implemented.
Loopj does not support websockets and it doesn't look like they will. OkHttp does, so I think that's enough of a reason to switch.