title: Adding HTTP Legacy to Android Studio
body: <p>Since Apache's HTTP library has been deprecated in favor of HttpURLConnection, i have been trying to add the legacy library to my project. I added the line </p>
  
  <pre><code> useLibrary 'org.apache.http.legacy'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to build.gradle but the the HTTP methods cannot be resolved still. How do i get this to work?</p>
  
  <p>These are the errors i am getting;</p>
  
  <pre><code>Error:(21, 59) error: cannot find symbol class List
  Error:(21, 64) error: cannot find symbol class NameValuePair
  Error:(23, 13) error: cannot find symbol class DefaultHttpClient
  Error:(23, 48) error: cannot find symbol class DefaultHttpClient
  Error:(24, 13) error: cannot find symbol class HttpEntity
  Error:(25, 13) error: cannot find symbol class HttpResponse
  Error:(28, 17) error: cannot find symbol class HttpPost
  Error:(28, 41) error: cannot find symbol class HttpPost
  Error:(30, 44) error: cannot find symbol class UrlEncodedFormEntity
  Error:(37, 42) error: cannot find symbol variable URLEncodedUtils
  Error:(40, 17) error: cannot find symbol class HttpGet
  Error:(40, 39) error: cannot find symbol class HttpGet
  Error:(48, 28) error: cannot find symbol variable EntityUtils`
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The following is my build.gradle file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>buildscript {
      repositories {
          maven { url 'https://maven.fabric.io/public' }
      }
  
      dependencies {
          classpath 'io.fabric.tools:gradle:1.19.2'
      }
  }
  apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
  apply plugin: 'io.fabric'
  
  repositories {
      maven { url 'https://maven.fabric.io/public' }
  }
  
  android {
      compileSdkVersion 23
      buildToolsVersion "23.0.1"
      useLibrary 'org.apache.http.legacy'
  
      defaultConfig {
          applicationId "com.radioafrica.music"
          minSdkVersion 11
          targetSdkVersion 23
          versionCode 1
          versionName "1.0"
      }
      buildTypes {
          release {
              minifyEnabled false
              proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
          }
      }
  }
  
  dependencies {
      compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
      compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:23.0.1'
      compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.0.1'
      compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:23.0.1'
      compile 'com.android.support:palette-v7:23.0.1'
      compile 'com.android.support:design:23.0.1'
      compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:23.0.1'
      compile 'com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:4.1.0'
      compile 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.5.2'
      compile 'com.squareup.okhttp:okhttp:2.4.0'
      compile 'de.hdodenhof:circleimageview:1.3.0'
      compile 'com.github.ksoichiro:android-observablescrollview:1.5.0'
      compile('com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics:2.5.0@aar') {
          transitive = true;
      }
      compile('com.twitter.sdk.android:twitter:1.6.1@aar') {
          transitive = true;
      }
      compile 'com.nineoldandroids:library:2.4.0'
  
  }
  </code></pre>