Android App Licensing crashes on Android Pie

Question

The error says URLEncodedUtils is not found. Is there a workaround.

Caused by java.lang.ClassNotFoundException
    Didn't find class "org.apache.http.client.utils.URLEncodedUtils" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/com.app.p-MY70To6m946K0_uiYLCsSg==/base.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app/com.app.p-MY70To6m946K0_uiYLCsSg==/lib/arm64, /data/app/com.app.p-MY70To6m946K0_uiYLCsSg==/base.apk!/lib/arm64-v8a, /system/lib64]]

Answer 1

The Apache libraries have been removed. If you were previously using

useLibrary 'org.apache.http.legacy 

in your build.gradle, it no longer works in Android Pie.

Instead, you have to add

<uses-library android:name="org.apache.http.legacy" android:required="false"/>

to your AndroidManifest.

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