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Muhammad Catubig
Muhammad Catubig

Reputation: 311

Why JSON Parsing in Android

I cannot find any explanation about why we use JSON when parsing it in Android?. Are we required to use it or is this just optional? What's the advantage and disadvantage of using it to extract data from the internet? Do we have to encode every data from PHP & MySQL into a JSON Format?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 86

Answers (3)

Joakim Ericsson
Joakim Ericsson

Reputation: 4696

JSON is just a format to represent Objects in textform. Its used often in Android because its nice to work with and has many libraries to help parse it.

Sometimes other formats are used like XML or something else to represent the data.

Upvotes: 1

Shmuel
Shmuel

Reputation: 3916

You can use any communication protocol you want, json is just an accepted standard. You can't just 'dump the mysql database' to the app, there has to be some sort of communication protocol that the server and client agree on to transport the data.

Some alternatives are xml or a binary format (such as protobuf).

I'd recommend json due to the abundance of tools and literature on it.

(Heres a blog post I wrote on using Jackson to parse json in Android http://shmuelrosansky.com/jackson/android/2015/07/20/jackson-android/)

Upvotes: 1

Kolten Sturgill
Kolten Sturgill

Reputation: 188

See this question. JSON is known as JavaScript Object Notation, it's a lot easier to parse then XML data, and there are libraries to help you retrieve the values from a JSON structure. As for the PHP & MySQL question, Android doesn't use MySQL, it uses SQLite instead. Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 2

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