To be able to upload files from an Android application and use the Multipart content type you need to add some additional jar files to your application.
The files needed are apache-mime4j, httpclient, httpcore and httpmime. All are opensource projects built by the Apache foundation.
Download the 4 files and add them to your project then you should be able to use the following code to post strings and files to pages.
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HttpClient httpclient =
new
DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost =
new
HttpPost(
"http://www.tumblr.com/api/write"
);
try
{
MultipartEntity entity =
new
MultipartEntity();
entity.addPart(
"type"
,
new
StringBody(
"photo"
));
entity.addPart(
"data"
,
new
FileBody(image));
httppost.setEntity(entity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
}
catch
(ClientProtocolException e) {
}
catch
(IOException e) {
}
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The image variable in this case is a File that contains an image captured by the camera on the phone.