diff --git a/components/mobile-plugins/android-plugin/org.wso2.carbon.device.mgt.mobile.android.api/pom.xml b/components/mobile-plugins/android-plugin/org.wso2.carbon.device.mgt.mobile.android.api/pom.xml
index bc46634f60..7b07c210dd 100644
--- a/components/mobile-plugins/android-plugin/org.wso2.carbon.device.mgt.mobile.android.api/pom.xml
+++ b/components/mobile-plugins/android-plugin/org.wso2.carbon.device.mgt.mobile.android.api/pom.xml
@@ -369,5 +369,9 @@
             <artifactId>org.wso2.carbon.device.application.mgt.common</artifactId>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
+            <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/components/mobile-plugins/android-plugin/org.wso2.carbon.device.mgt.mobile.android.api/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/mdm/services/android/util/AndroidDeviceUtils.java b/components/mobile-plugins/android-plugin/org.wso2.carbon.device.mgt.mobile.android.api/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/mdm/services/android/util/AndroidDeviceUtils.java
index b5b1803636..a66e3a07f9 100644
--- a/components/mobile-plugins/android-plugin/org.wso2.carbon.device.mgt.mobile.android.api/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/mdm/services/android/util/AndroidDeviceUtils.java
+++ b/components/mobile-plugins/android-plugin/org.wso2.carbon.device.mgt.mobile.android.api/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/mdm/services/android/util/AndroidDeviceUtils.java
@@ -41,12 +41,15 @@ import com.google.gson.JsonElement;
 import com.google.gson.JsonNull;
 import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
 import com.google.gson.JsonParser;
-import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
 import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException;
-import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;
-import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.StringRequestEntity;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
+import org.apache.http.entity.ContentType;
+import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
+import org.json.JSONArray;
+import org.json.JSONObject;
 import org.wso2.carbon.analytics.api.AnalyticsDataAPI;
 import org.wso2.carbon.analytics.api.AnalyticsDataAPIUtil;
 import org.wso2.carbon.analytics.dataservice.commons.AnalyticsDataResponse;
@@ -97,9 +100,9 @@ import org.wso2.carbon.policy.mgt.common.FeatureManagementException;
 import org.wso2.carbon.policy.mgt.common.PolicyManagementException;
 import org.wso2.carbon.policy.mgt.core.PolicyManagerService;
 import org.wso2.carbon.user.api.UserStoreException;
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
 
 import javax.validation.ConstraintViolation;
-import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
@@ -673,8 +676,6 @@ public class AndroidDeviceUtils {
     public static void installEnrollmentApplications(ProfileFeature feature, DeviceIdentifier deviceIdentifier)
             throws PolicyManagementException {
         String uuid = "";
-        HttpClient httpClient;
-        PostMethod request;
         try {
             String tenantDomain = PrivilegedCarbonContext.getThreadLocalCarbonContext().getTenantDomain();
             ApiApplicationKey apiApplicationKey = OAuthUtils.getClientCredentials(tenantDomain);
@@ -688,21 +689,25 @@ public class AndroidDeviceUtils {
                     AndroidConstants.ApplicationInstall.ENROLLMENT_APP_INSTALL_URL;
             JsonElement appListElement = new JsonParser().parse(feature.getContent().toString()).getAsJsonObject()
                     .get(AndroidConstants.ApplicationInstall.ENROLLMENT_APP_INSTALL_CODE);
-            String payload = "[{\"id\":\"" + deviceIdentifier.getId() + "\", \"type\":\""
-                             + deviceIdentifier.getType() + "\"}]";
-            StringRequestEntity requestEntity = new StringRequestEntity(payload, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON
-                    , AndroidConstants.ApplicationInstall.ENCODING);
+
+            JSONObject deviceObject = new JSONObject();
+            deviceObject.put("id", deviceIdentifier.getId());
+            deviceObject.put("type", deviceIdentifier.getType());
+            JSONArray payload = new JSONArray();
+            payload.put(deviceObject);
+            StringEntity requestEntity = new StringEntity(payload.toString(), ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON);
             JsonArray appListArray = appListElement.getAsJsonArray();
             for (JsonElement appElement : appListArray) {
                 uuid = appElement.getAsJsonObject().
                         get(AndroidConstants.ApplicationInstall.ENROLLMENT_APP_INSTALL_UUID).getAsString();
-                requestUrl = requestUrl.replace("{uuid}", uuid);
-                httpClient = new HttpClient();
-                request = new PostMethod(requestUrl);
-                request.addRequestHeader(AndroidConstants.ApplicationInstall.AUTHORIZATION
-                        , AndroidConstants.ApplicationInstall.AUTHORIZATION_HEADER_VALUE + tokenInfo.getAccessToken());
-                request.setRequestEntity(requestEntity);
-                httpClient.executeMethod(request);
+                try (CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.createDefault()) {
+                    HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost(requestUrl.replace("{uuid}", uuid));
+                    postRequest.setHeader(AndroidConstants.ApplicationInstall.AUTHORIZATION,
+                            AndroidConstants.ApplicationInstall.AUTHORIZATION_HEADER_VALUE + tokenInfo
+                                    .getAccessToken());
+                    postRequest.setEntity(requestEntity);
+                    httpClient.execute(postRequest);
+                }
             }
         } catch (UserStoreException e) {
             String msg = "Error while accessing user store for user with Android device id: " +
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index fb0ca9579b..e03097d764 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1020,6 +1020,11 @@
                 <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
                 <version>${httpclient.version}</version>
             </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
+                <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
+                <version>${apache.http.client.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
                 <artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
@@ -1334,6 +1339,7 @@
         <httpclient.version>4.3.1.wso2v2</httpclient.version>
         <httpclient.version.range>[4.3.1, 5.0.0)</httpclient.version.range>
         <httpcore.version>4.3.3.wso2v1</httpcore.version>
+        <apache.http.client.version>4.5.6</apache.http.client.version>
 
         <!-- Nimbus Jose-->
         <nimbus.orbit.version>2.26.1.wso2v3</nimbus.orbit.version>