Starter code crashes on launch

[mowdownjoe]

After fixing the build errors in the starter code (Why are those even there?), attempting to run the app just causes the app to crash while trying to access the network:
2020-07-29 08:15:21.189 20117-20157/com.example.xyzreader E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: Thread-6 Process: com.example.xyzreader, PID: 20117 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Lorg/apache/http/ProtocolVersion; at com.android.volley.toolbox.HurlStack.performRequest(HurlStack.java:108) at com.android.volley.toolbox.BasicNetwork.performRequest(BasicNetwork.java:93) at com.android.volley.NetworkDispatcher.run(NetworkDispatcher.java:105) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "org.apache.http.ProtocolVersion" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/com.example.xyzreader-KRauDsKw7LvXzM_JzmX25w==/base.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app/com.example.xyzreader-KRauDsKw7LvXzM_JzmX25w==/lib/x86, /system/lib, /system/product/lib]] at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:196) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:379) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:312) at com.android.volley.toolbox.HurlStack.performRequest(HurlStack.java:108) at com.android.volley.toolbox.BasicNetwork.performRequest(BasicNetwork.java:93) at com.android.volley.NetworkDispatcher.run(NetworkDispatcher.java:105)