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Android Programming: Send data via HTTP POST request

Tutorial by Progger99 | 2012-11-20 at 22:43

Android makes it easy for us to send data via HTTP POST to any website on the net. In this small tutorial, I will show you how to do it.

First, we need to get the necessary permissions. For that, we are writing the following line in the AndroidManifest.xml:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

Without this line, our app can not access the internet later.

Next, we need two objects, a "client" and our "post". As a parameter, we pass the address of the script to our "post", to which the data should be sent later:

HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost post = new HttpPost("http://www.example.com/script.php");

Before we start, we need a list containing our data, we would like to send. We take a "NameValuePair" list for that, so that we can define the names and the applicable related values.

List<NameValuePair> postlist = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
postlist.add(new BasicNameValuePair("key1", "value1"));
postlist.add(new BasicNameValuePair("key2", "value2"));

Next, we are using setEnitity() and UrlEncodedFormEntity to assign the list to our "post" in the right form.

try {
   post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(postlist));
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
   throw new AssertionError("Encoding Error");
   // or
   Toast.makeText(this, e.toString(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}

Finally, we only need to run the POST request. We use the following line fot that:

try {
  HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
   throw new AssertionError("Client Protocol Error");
   // or
   Toast.makeText(this, e.toString(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
} catch (IOException e) {
   throw new AssertionError("IO Error");
   // or
   Toast.makeText(this, e.toString(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}

We get back a HTTP response object that contains our response of the script. If we want, of course, we can also process and analyze this return object to get a feedback about the query.

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