public void getUpdates() {
 
    HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet("http://yourservice.com/api/stores.json");
 
    // you have to tell the server that you can handle zipped response
    httpget.addHeader("Accept-Encoding", "gzip");
 
    HttpResponse response;
 
    try {
        response = httpclient.execute(httpget);
        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
        if (entity != null) {
            InputStream instream = entity.getContent();
            String result;
            // check if we got a compressed resonse back
            if (entity.getContentEncoding() != null && "gzip".equalsIgnoreCase(entity.getContentEncoding().getValue())){
                result =  uncompressInputStream(instream);
            } else {
                result = convertStreamToString(instream);
            }
 
            ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(); 
            mapper.getSerializationConfig().setDateFormat(sdf);
            JsonStoreResult jsonResult = mapper.readValue(result, JsonStoreResult.class);
 
            for (JsonStore e : jsonResult.getStores()) {
                // store this object or do something with it
 
            }
        }
    } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}
 
private String uncompressInputStream(InputStream inputStream) throws IOException {
    StringBuilder value = new StringBuilder();
 
    GZIPInputStream gzipIn = null;
    InputStreamReader inputReader = null;
    BufferedReader reader = null;
 
    try {
        gzipIn = new GZIPInputStream(inputStream);
        inputReader = new InputStreamReader(gzipIn, "UTF-8");
        reader = new BufferedReader(inputReader);
 
        String line = "";
        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
            value.append(line + "\n");
        }
    } finally {
        try {
            if (gzipIn != null) {
                gzipIn.close();
            }
 
            if (inputReader != null) {
                inputReader.close();
            }
 
            if (reader != null) {
                reader.close();
            }
 
        } catch (IOException io) {
 
            io.printStackTrace();
        }
 
    }
 
    return value.toString();
}
 
private String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) {
   BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
   StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
 
   String line = null;
   try {
       while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
           sb.append(line + "\n");
       }
   } catch (IOException e) {
       e.printStackTrace();
   } finally {
       try {
           is.close();
       } catch (IOException e) {
           e.printStackTrace();
       }
   }
   return sb.toString();
}