Try-with-resources requires API level 19 (OkHttp)

The solution is to not use try-with-resources unless you can set your min API level to 19. So instead of this:

try (Response response = client.newCall(request).execute()) {    return response.body().string();}

you should to this:

Response response = null;try {    response = client.newCall(request).execute();    return response.body().string();} finally {    if (response != null) {        response.close();    }}

EDIT: The Java Language Specification, Section 14.20.3.1 provides a slightly different (but, in this case, functionally identical) equivalent to a basic try-with-resources statement (one without any catch or finally blocks) like you have:

{    final Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();    Throwable primaryExc = null;    try {        return response.body().string();    } catch (Throwable t) {        primaryExc = t;        throw t;    } finally {        if (response != null) {            if (primaryExc != null) {                try {                    response.close();                } catch (Throwable suppressed) {                    primaryExc.addSuppressed(suppressed);                }            } else {                response.close();            }        }    }}

This has two effects. First, it makes the response variable local to the equivalent block. (My suggestion made it visible after the try statement finishes, which may be undesirable.) More importantly, it has the effect of suppressing any exception thrown while closing the resource. That is, if the body of the original try block throws an exception, invoking code will see that instead of the exception thrown by the close(). (The exception thrown by the close() would still be available via the getSuppressed() method of the exception actually thrown.) You don't need this more complicated version because (as far as I can tell from the API docs) Response.close() doesn't throw exceptions.

For future reader.

Now, that there is Java 8. You just have to specify to compile with Java 8 in gradle

compileOptions {    sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8    targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8}

The warning will go away. Compiler will translate the code to what Ted Hopp in the answer.