HTTP File Uploads
One way that we may wish to allow the user to distribute media that is created by applications we develop is to allow them to be posted to online video sharing sites, such as YouTube, Vimeo, or Blip.TV.
In order to post files to services such as these, we need to do an HTTP file upload. There are several ways we might accomplish an HTTP file upload on Android. The way that gives us the most flexibility is to involve importing and using libraries from Apache's HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/) that were not fully included with Android.
We'll need httpmime-4.0.x.jar, which is provided within the HttpClient 4.0.x (GA) download available at http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi. (The “x” in the version numbers is currently at ...
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