In Android, it seems so confusing how to upload a binary file to a server because some libraries have become outdated and there's a lack of information which approach should be used nowadays. Could anyone give a pointer of how to upload a binary or whatever file to a server in Android?
I'd prefer not to use any dependencies, unless they really are neccessary.
In lack of information what kind of server this might be, I've found this
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient(); OutputStream out = null; try { URL url = new URL("http://www.example.com"); HttpURLConnection connection = client.open(url); for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : multipart.getHeaders().entrySet()) { connection.addRequestProperty(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue()); } connection.setRequestMethod("POST"); // Write the request. out = connection.getOutputStream(); multipart.writeBodyTo(out); out.close(); // Read the response. if (connection.getResponseCode() != HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) { throw new IOException("Unexpected HTTP response: " + connection.getResponseCode() + " " + connection.getResponseMessage()); } } finally { try { if (out != null) out.close(); } catch (Exception e) {} } I assume that the deprecated/outdated library you mentioned would be ApacheHttpClient, therefore I recommend OkHttp (that is using HttpUrlConnectionI believe) instead.
To add OkHttp as dependency you can edit your build.gradle like:
dependencies { //some other dependencies compile 'com.squareup.okhttp:okhttp:2.7.2' } Available versions can be found here: mvnrepository (no need to download them manually, just add them like above, gradle will download them itself)
