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Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.apache.http.util.Args

  conn.addRequestProperty(entity.getContentType().getName(), entity.getContentType().getValue());

It crashes on samsung device running operating system version 4.1. While on Marshmallow Nexus 6 device, it works perfectly fine. What is the problem?

Gradle file

compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:8.4.0'
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.1.1'
compile 'com.android.support:design:23.1.1'

I have in my libs folder httpclient-4.3.3.jar httpclient-cache-4.3.3.jar httpcore-4.3.2.jar httpmime-4.3.3.jar

Solution

  • Apache http client was removed since marshmallow.

    See here Apache HTTP Client Removal

    Solution (about embed client at all):

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

    UPDATED: About the particular problem see related post

    Btw, in my project I can't add apache http client as a library, because of package name conflict with embed cliend. I have to use this or as described here