Spartan Java

In case you are not doing it already, using asynchronous logging is generally a good idea. You don’t want your application to slow down if the server IO is a little behind flushing all that logging to the filesystem. By making it asynchronous your application can continue running without having to wait for the log lines to be written to their final destination.

My personal choice for Java logging is log4j, there are a lot of different frameworks (including Suns own logging API), but log4j works great and is extremely flexible.
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The Google folks were kind enough to include a version of the Apache HTTP Client in the Android SDK, ergo loading a web resource/page from our Android apps is really simple:

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HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpContext localContext = new BasicHttpContext();
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet("http://www.spartanjava.com");
HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpGet, localContext);
String result = "";
 
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
    new InputStreamReader(
      response.getEntity().getContent()
    )
  );
 
String line = null;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null){
  result += line + "\n";
}
 
// Now you have the whole HTML loaded on the result variable