Android set content type HttpPost

Question

How can you change the content-type of a HttpPost in android?

For a request I need to set the content type to application/x-www-form-urlencoded

So i got this bit

Answer 1

Deprecated: nameValuePairs

Alternative: use volley library

The complete code for the call, for whoever might need it.

    List nameValuePairs = new ArrayList();
    nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("grant_type", "password"));
    nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("username", "user1"));
    nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("password", "password1"));

    HttpClient httpclient=new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("www.yourUrl.com");
    httppost.setHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE,"application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8");

    try {
        httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs, "UTF-8"));
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    // Execute HTTP Post Request
    try {
        HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
        Log.d("Response:" , response.toString());
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }