java - NameValuePair deprecated for openConnection -

i been following online tutorials on how insert data database android app , have working except small part

list<namevaluepair> params = new arraylist<>(); params.add(new basicnamevaluepair("username", username)); params.add(new basicnamevaluepair("password", password)); 

namevaluepair , basicnamevaluepair have been deprecated in favor of openconnection(). how can create new-value association that? http://developer.android.com/reference/java/net/url.html#openconnection()

does know how can create name value pairs openconnection? been searching everywhere.

you can use contentvalues example

contentvalues values=new contentvalues(); values.put("username",name); values.put("password",password); database.insert(table_name,null,values);