To be honest I've not looked into how tricky it would be - if anything I went the opposite route of experimenting with a reqwest-API-compatible wrapper for URLS

To be honest I've not looked into how tricky it would be - if anything I went the opposite route of experimenting with a reqwest-API-compatible wrapper for URLSession but didn't get too far due to other projects taking up my time. It might be the easier path though - one crate that basically uses a `reqwest`, `ureq` or `URLSession` backend since the former two would still work on Android to start. For reqwest specifically I guess it would also depend on how badly you want `async` support or not (i.e just the blocking module API).