Android Gradle Apache HttpClient does not exist?

if you are using target sdk as 23 add below code in your build.gradle

android{
    compileSdkVersion 23
    buildToolsVersion '23.0.1'
    useLibrary  'org.apache.http.legacy'
}

and change your buildscript to

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.3.0' 

for more info follow this link

I had this problem and then found these pages: Here you can see that apache library is deprecated, but it's not removed, so it should work. It doesn't.

See.

And here you can see how to include apache library to your project

See.

I resolved problem by adding following to my build.gradle file as recommended in second link.

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

However this only works if you are using gradle 1.3.0-beta2 or greater, so you will have to add this to buildscript dependencies if you are on a lower version:

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.3.0-beta2'

Hope this helps.

Add this library into build.gradle

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

I suggest you replace the deprecated apache HttpClient with the new HttpURLConnection.

That's a cleaner solution, it's quite easy to migrate, and generally it's better to stick to the latest SDK changes than trying to hack/patch/workaround: you usually regret it later :)

Step 1

HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);

becomes:

URL urlObj = new URL(url);

Step 2

HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpContext localContext = new BasicHttpContext();
HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpGet, localContext);
InputStream is = response.getEntity().getContent();

becomes:

HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) urlObj.openConnection();
InputStream is = urlConnection.getInputStream();

Step 2 bis

int status = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();

becomes:

int status = urlConnection.getResponseCode();