One of my planned projects in the upcoming 2011 is the Magento – Android application. I already did a fair part on the Android side, plus I started the Magento Mapy extension few weeks ago. Due to my recent one month vacation I was “off the grid” when it comes to my free time work so all my stuff were in a “pause mode”.
Besides my playing around with Android and XML-RPC, here is a simple JSON parsing example that might get you started with more serious things.
In this example, I am connecting to Twitters public timeline JSON url.
package net.inchoo.demo.andy1;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import android.app.ListActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
public class HomeActivity extends ListActivity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@SuppressWarnings({ "rawtypes", "unchecked" })
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, this.fetchTwitterPublicTimeline()));
}
public ArrayList<String> fetchTwitterPublicTimeline()
{
ArrayList<String> listItems = new ArrayList<String>();
try {
URL twitter = new URL(
"http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.json");
URLConnection tc = twitter.openConnection();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
tc.getInputStream()));
String line;
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
JSONArray ja = new JSONArray(line);
for (int i = 0; i < ja.length(); i++) {
JSONObject jo = (JSONObject) ja.get(i);
listItems.add(jo.getString("text"));
}
}
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (JSONException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
return listItems;
}
}
Please direct your attention on the listItems.add(jo.getString(“text”)); line. This is the part that I am grabbing a “text” attribute/property of single JSON object. To get a more “visual” picture of all available attributes/properties you might want to take a look at the XML version of twitters public timeline. This way you will get nice colored XML in your browser, where you can see all available attributes.
Cheers.
I was looking exactly for this kinda stuff, to parse a json from a url.
Mohneesh
Android Developer
Excellent, also looking to parse json from url, 100%.
Thanks
Thanks a lot for the tutorial. simple and efficient. I was picking the hair off my head to find out the issue
json parse library
http://www.c0de.com.ar/android-library.php
hi , i have some warnings in this code , so its not properly work. .it show warning at @SuppressWarnings({ “rawtypes”, “unchecked” }). . kindly help me . .thanx
Thanks dude, its a very nice tutorial,Simple and easy to understand
thank u so much for nice tutorial it will help us a lot
Thanks million. I’m getting crazy with this issue
this example is showing a force close error
Hei Branko nice artikel! but you need to remove
and add parameter after new ArrayAdapter. Because I am getting error from your original source code. This is the source code that I have changed :
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, this.fetchTwitterPublicTimeline())); }CMIIW, Keep Posting!
I can’t seem to get this code to work, It just gives me a blank screen with no data. Can someone tell me what should be in my main.xml file?
we have to mention url which contains result and this line should be according to the attributes in result
listItems.add(jo.getString(“text”));
“text” should be your attribute.
I can’t seem to get this code to work, It just gives me a blank screen with no data. Can someone tell me what should be in my main.xml file?
Hi Thanks for the tutorial got the error i missed this line “” in xml file
Hi,
Great article, I just extended it a little bit using an AsyncTask to load it on background:
https://github.com/lunalvo/TweetTestApp
Hope it helps someone.
@Corey,@asif:
Just give the permission inside Android mAnifest file as
“”
it surely works
and thanks Branko Ajzele for the code it is very useful one…
requesting more like this
sorry text is not appearing just give user permission in side manifest for “android.permission.INTERNET”.
thank you so much for the support and effort. This is what exactly i am looking for .great app
is is very helpful for the beginners like me thanq
the application n has forced closed
I’ve written the same code n still it shuts down forcibly.. pls help
i like your tutorial.we do the json parsing using android json classes.but for parsing purpose android provides Gson API.so can u tell me wats the benifit of gsonAPI.
basically the core of the logic is totally worng,
String line;
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
JSONArray ja = new JSONArray(line);
for (int i = 0; i < ja.length(); i++) {
JSONObject jo = (JSONObject) ja.get(i);
listItems.add(jo.getString("text"));
}
}
in this logic jsonarray cant parse a single line it needs
the hole string of json objects..
add
and
into your main.xml
Hi, I am newbie for android, please help me guys for following problem.
ex. “profile_image_url”:”http:\/\/a0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1882839203\/ThugMissez4_normal.jpg”
i’m having same kind of json string and i want load and display this kind of image in my imageview
ex.
Bitmap bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(jo.getString(“Picurl”));
imageurl.add(bmp);
where imageur is Arraylist
but i get null values. please help me out for this problem.
1HI, nice one but you have to remove
setContentView(R.layout.main); if you use setListAdapter.
and add parameter after new ArrayAdapter. no need of setcontentview()
. This is the source code that I have changed :
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, this.fetchTwitterPublicTimeline()));
}
yup. thanks @jayachandra.
hai how to send application data to my server
Thanks for the article,
Can you please write any article that something like this:
get name from android page send it into server in POST method and again read data from server that send by JSON fromat from server and display that data in android page.
Thanks.
Hi,
I want to fetch data from MySQL can u provide me the whole script for this. .
Please
Thanks Alot in Advanced
[2012-06-22 19:51:26 - jason_example5] Failed to install jason_example5.apk on device ‘emulator-5554′: EOF
[2012-06-22 19:51:26 - jason_example5] java.io.IOException: EOF
[2012-06-22 19:51:26 - jason_example5] Launch canceled!
ven i m launching this code its showing the above error ?i m new to android so please help me out in that.
i have created xml which contains image view ,text view,buttons .so i wantes to reterive all images so anyone can tell me how to do that…..
I want to check some data from android to MySQL can u provide me the whole script for this. . !
This Sample Project is showing a force close error.. whether any changes in xml file
find force close ……..