Android set content type HttpPost

            HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(builder.getUrl());            httppost.setHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE,                    "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8");            // Add your data            httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(builder                    .getNameValuePairs(), "UTF-8"));            // Execute HTTP Post Request            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);

Note: the builder just contains url and namevalue pairs.

Deprecated: nameValuePairs

Alternative: use volley library

The complete code for the call, for whoever might need it.

    List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();    nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("grant_type", "password"));    nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("username", "user1"));    nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("password", "password1"));    HttpClient httpclient=new DefaultHttpClient();    HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("www.yourUrl.com");    httppost.setHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE,"application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8");    try {        httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs, "UTF-8"));    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {        e.printStackTrace();    }    // Execute HTTP Post Request    try {        HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);        Log.d("Response:" , response.toString());    } catch (IOException e) {        e.printStackTrace();    }