HttpEntity is deprecated on Android now, what's the alternative?

Question

With the release of Android 5.1, it looks like all the Apache http stuff has been deprecated. Looking at the documentation is useless; they all say

This class

Answer 1

The HttpClient documentation points you in the right direction:

org.apache.http.client.HttpClient:

This interface was deprecated in API level 22. Please use openConnection() instead. Please visit this webpage for further details.

means that you should switch to java.net.URL.openConnection().

Here's how you could do it:

java.net.URL url = new java.net.URL("http://some-server");
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");

// read the response
System.out.println("Response Code: " + conn.getResponseCode());
InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(conn.getInputStream());
String response = org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.toString(in, "UTF-8");
System.out.println(response);