Anthoni wrote: > Hi raqz, > > I saw your previous post in that you were sending lists of friends via > serialization and were advised to use xml instead. > Instead of XML you could also use JSON as it is more lightweight than > using XML and doesn't take long to implement. > I was using XML as my back end for my database to communicate with my > application but I changed it all to JSON and haven't looked back > since. > > Here is an article on parsing JSON with Java > http://www.androidcompetencycenter.com/2009/10/json-parsing-in-android/ > Read through that and it should give you some ideas. There is an > article on getting JSON back from the server but I can't find that at > moment. > Will try and dig it out though.
Another advantage of JSON is that there is code built into Android to generate JSON (for shipping *to* a Web server). There is no equivalent of that for XML. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training...At Your Office: http://commonsware.com/training -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
