JSON Structures in Android

JSON uses two types of brackets that are as follows:

• [] – To declare the elements of Array in JSON, they’re written in square brackets.
• {} – To create JSON objects, the elements are written in curly brackets.

JSON has the following types of structures that are:

1. JSON Objects

The elements inside the curly brackets are known as Objects.

2. JSON Array

A list of values, known as Arrays.

3. JSON Key-Value

This data is stored as a pair of keys and values. Here the keys can be a name, a number for which the values can be Seema, 98767586 etc.

Why JSON Parsing in Android over XML?

Let us see some reasons for why to choose JSON over XML:

• It is much easier and quicker with high performance
• It can use arrays
• Its libraries do not depend on other libraries
• The codes written in JSON are short, clean and easy to understand
• It is free to open use and open-source tool
• In JSON value retrieval is easy
• It has a fully automated way of serializing/deserializing JavaScript.
• It is supported by many Ajax toolkits and most of the backend technologies.

Examples of XML and JSON

Let us see the code difference of JSON and XML files:

XML Example:

<?xml version= “1.0” encoding= “” ?>
<student>
        <student>
  <name> Sia Sharma</name>
  <city> Chandigarh</city>
         </student>
        <student>
  <name>Dimple D’souza</name>
  <city> Nagpur</city>
         </student>
      <student>
  <name>Anna Jones</name>
  <city> Mumbai</city>
         </student>
  </student>

JSON Example:

{ “students”: [
{ “name”: “Sia Sharma”, “city”: “Chandigarh”},
{ “name”: “Prachi D’Souza”, “city”: “Nagpur”},
{ “name”: “Annas Jones”, “city”: “Mumbai”}
]}

I hope the difference is all clear in front of you. This is how simple JSON is and how easily it could be understood.

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