Yea, you just use the HttpURLConnection class. The Android team has actually put a lot of development time into making this class extremely performant and usefully. I highly recommend it!
You may want to check out Apache HTTP Client (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/). It makes HTTP communication pretty simple.
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