we are trying to minimise the json data footprint for our android native application but, from the android developer pages we can see that by default android uses gzip compression
http://developer.android.com/reference/java/net/HttpURLConnection.html
However we were looking as to how to reduce the footprint further using lzw etc. since the json files we send over are huge. If there is any way to get the same compression level in gzip that is also fine.
We are looking at the following method for customising the compression algorithm
http://twistbyte.com/applications/receive-compressed-json-with-android-app
If there is any android port for any such library please let us know.