Importing Apache HTTP Components Android Studio 1.3.2

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I am trying to use Apache HTTP components to provide my android application with live currency rates. I have the following code to import these but have errors

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.ParseException;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

I have tried the following JAR http://www.java2s.com/Code/Jar/h/Downloadhttpclient403jar.htm with no luck. Is there any other way of implementing this?

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NoChinDeluxe · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-03 19:07:05Z

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The Apache HTTP client is now deprecated. You'll want to use HttpURLConnection instead to make web calls.

See the release notes for more info here: http://developer.android.com/about/versions/marshmallow/android-6.0-changes.html#behavior-apache-http-client

To continue using the Apache HTTP APIs, you must first declare the following compile-time dependency in your build.gradle file:

android {
    useLibrary 'org.apache.http.legacy'
}

answered Mar 3, 2016 at 19:07

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CommonsWare · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-03 19:27:21Z

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You can use a fairly up-to-date independent packaging of Apache HttpClient via the cz.msebera.android:httpclient:4.4.1.1 artifact. So, in Android Studio, for the module where you want to use HttpClient, you would have:

dependencies {
  compile 'cz.msebera.android:httpclient:4.4.1.1'
}

Note that the API for current editions of HttpClient, such as what you get from the above library, is different than the API for the deprecated-and-gone edition of HttpClient that was baked into Android and used to be part of the Android SDK.

Personally, I would recommend that you use OkHttp instead.

answered Mar 3, 2016 at 19:27

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