Post multipart request with Android SDK

Question

I\'m trying to do something I thought would be relatively simple: Upload an image to a server with the Android SDK. I\'m found a lot of example code:

http://groups.g

Answer 1

Remove all your httpclient, httpmime dependency and add this dependency compile 'commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient:3.1'. This dependency has built in MultipartRequestEntity so that you can easily upload one or more files to the server

public class FileUploadUrlConnection extends AsyncTask {
private Context context;
private String url;
private List files;

public FileUploadUrlConnection(Context context, String url, List files) {
    this.context = context;
    this.url = url;
    this.files = files;
}

@Override
protected String doInBackground(String... params) {

    HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
    PostMethod post = new PostMethod(url);
    HttpClientParams connectionParams = new HttpClientParams();

    post.setRequestHeader(// Your header goes here );

    try {
        Part[] parts = new Part[files.size()];
        for (int i=0; i

You can also add the request and response timeout

client.getParams().setParameter(CoreConnectionPNames.CONNECTION_TIMEOUT, 10000);
client.getParams().setParameter(CoreConnectionPNames.SO_TIMEOUT, 10000);