I had the same issue – try to use the http-android-client (this also relies on the httmime
but requires 4.3). This worked for me:
dependencies {
compile group: 'org.apache.httpcomponents' , name: 'httpclient-android' , version: '4.3.5.1'
compile('org.apache.httpcomponents:httpmime:4.3') {
exclude module: "httpclient"
}
}