How to send multipart request using Volley without HttpEntity?

I have found a solution for this (based on Multipart/form-data requests in Android: HttpURLConnection vs OkHttp )

Here is my working sample code (tested with ASP.Net WebAPI)

MultipartActivity.java

package com.example.volleyapp; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Context; import android.graphics.Bitmap; import android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable; import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable; import android.os.Bundle; import android.support.v4.content.ContextCompat; import android.view.Menu; import android.view.MenuItem; import com.android.volley.AuthFailureError; import com.android.volley.NetworkResponse; import com.android.volley.Response; import com.android.volley.VolleyError; import com.example.volleyapp.BaseVolleyRequest; import com.example.volleyapp.VolleySingleton; import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream; import java.io.DataOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; public class MultipartActivity extends Activity { final Context mContext = this; String mimeType; DataOutputStream dos = null; String lineEnd = "\r\n"; String boundary = "apiclient-" + System.currentTimeMillis(); String twoHyphens = "--"; int bytesRead, bytesAvailable, bufferSize; byte[] buffer; int maxBufferSize = 1024 * 1024; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_multipart); Drawable drawable = ContextCompat.getDrawable(mContext, R.drawable.ic_action_file_attachment_light); Bitmap bitmap = ((BitmapDrawable) drawable).getBitmap(); ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, byteArrayOutputStream); final byte[] bitmapData = byteArrayOutputStream.toByteArray(); String url = "http://192.168.1.100/api/postfile"; mimeType = "multipart/form-data;boundary=" + boundary; BaseVolleyRequest baseVolleyRequest = new BaseVolleyRequest(1, url, new Response.Listener<NetworkResponse>() { @Override public void onResponse(NetworkResponse response) { } }, new Response.ErrorListener() { @Override public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) { } }) { @Override public String getBodyContentType() { return mimeType; } @Override public byte[] getBody() throws AuthFailureError { ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); dos = new DataOutputStream(bos); try { dos.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + lineEnd); dos.writeBytes("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"uploaded_file\";filename=\"" + "ic_action_file_attachment_light.png" + "\"" + lineEnd); dos.writeBytes(lineEnd); ByteArrayInputStream fileInputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(bitmapData); bytesAvailable = fileInputStream.available(); bufferSize = Math.min(bytesAvailable, maxBufferSize); buffer = new byte[bufferSize]; // read file and write it into form... bytesRead = fileInputStream.read(buffer, 0, bufferSize); while (bytesRead > 0) { dos.write(buffer, 0, bufferSize); bytesAvailable = fileInputStream.available(); bufferSize = Math.min(bytesAvailable, maxBufferSize); bytesRead = fileInputStream.read(buffer, 0, bufferSize); } // send multipart form data necesssary after file data... dos.writeBytes(lineEnd); dos.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + twoHyphens + lineEnd); return bos.toByteArray(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return bitmapData; } }; VolleySingleton.getInstance(mContext).addToRequestQueue(baseVolleyRequest); } @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present. getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_multipart, menu); return true; } @Override public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) { // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml. int id = item.getItemId(); //noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement if (id == R.id.action_settings) { return true; } return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item); } } 

BaseVolleyRequest.java:

package com.example.volleyapp; import com.android.volley.NetworkResponse; import com.android.volley.ParseError; import com.android.volley.Request; import com.android.volley.Response; import com.android.volley.VolleyError; import com.android.volley.toolbox.HttpHeaderParser; import com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException; public class BaseVolleyRequest extends Request<NetworkResponse> { private final Response.Listener<NetworkResponse> mListener; private final Response.ErrorListener mErrorListener; public BaseVolleyRequest(String url, Response.Listener<NetworkResponse> listener, Response.ErrorListener errorListener) { super(0, url, errorListener); this.mListener = listener; this.mErrorListener = errorListener; } public BaseVolleyRequest(int method, String url, Response.Listener<NetworkResponse> listener, Response.ErrorListener errorListener) { super(method, url, errorListener); this.mListener = listener; this.mErrorListener = errorListener; } @Override protected Response<NetworkResponse> parseNetworkResponse(NetworkResponse response) { try { return Response.success( response, HttpHeaderParser.parseCacheHeaders(response)); } catch (JsonSyntaxException e) { return Response.error(new ParseError(e)); } catch (Exception e) { return Response.error(new ParseError(e)); } } @Override protected void deliverResponse(NetworkResponse response) { mListener.onResponse(response); } @Override protected VolleyError parseNetworkError(VolleyError volleyError) { return super.parseNetworkError(volleyError); } @Override public void deliverError(VolleyError error) { mErrorListener.onErrorResponse(error); } }