Update April 29th 2014:
My answer is kind of old by now and I guess you rather want to use some kind of high level library such as Retrofit.
Based on this blog I came up with the following solution:
http://blog.tacticalnuclearstrike.com/2010/01/using-multipartentity-in-android-applications/
You will have to download additional libraries to get MultipartEntity running!
1) Download httpcomponents-client-4.1.zip from http://james.apache.org/download.cgi#Apache_Mime4J and add apache-mime4j-0.6.1.jar to your project.
2) Download httpcomponents-client-4.1-bin.zip from http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi and add httpclient-4.1.jar, httpcore-4.1.jar and httpmime-4.1.jar to your project.
3) Use the example code below.
private DefaultHttpClient mHttpClient;
public ServerCommunication() {
HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
params.setParameter(CoreProtocolPNames.PROTOCOL_VERSION, HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1);
mHttpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(params);
}
public void uploadUserPhoto(File image) {
try {
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("some url");
MultipartEntity multipartEntity = new MultipartEntity(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);
multipartEntity.addPart("Title", new StringBody("Title"));
multipartEntity.addPart("Nick", new StringBody("Nick"));
multipartEntity.addPart("Email", new StringBody("Email"));
multipartEntity.addPart("Description", new StringBody(Settings.SHARE.TEXT));
multipartEntity.addPart("Image", new FileBody(image));
httppost.setEntity(multipartEntity);
mHttpClient.execute(httppost, new PhotoUploadResponseHandler());
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e(ServerCommunication.class.getName(), e.getLocalizedMessage(), e);
}
}
private class PhotoUploadResponseHandler implements ResponseHandler<Object> {
@Override
public Object handleResponse(HttpResponse response)
throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
HttpEntity r_entity = response.getEntity();
String responseString = EntityUtils.toString(r_entity);
Log.d("UPLOAD", responseString);
return null;
}
}