I commonly see data stored in JSON objects/arrays in open sourced Android code.
Why/When should I use JSON over normal Java ArrayLists?
I commonly see data stored in JSON objects/arrays in open sourced Android code. Why/When
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I commonly see data stored in JSON objects/arrays in open sourced Android code.
Why/When should I use JSON over normal Java ArrayLists?
JSON is a standard for transferring data between servers. It’s a format that can be understood by any language, whether it be Java, C#, PHP, Python, Ruby, or JavaScript. Since it’s a widely recognized format, it’s much easier to work with JSON.
Many Android apps do communicate with a server, so it was probably easier for those developers to transfer the data to and from their server, which may or may not have been using Java.