Simple JSON Parsing Example in Android – Part II

by durga chiranjeevi 6/01/2015 | 9:49 1 Posted in Android

In this blog post, ill show you how to Retrieving JSON data and Displaying it in Android TextView.

My Other blog post on JSON Tutorial.

Part I – What is JSON and how to code JSON data on Php
Part II – How to retrieve a simplest JSON data in Android
Part III – How to retrieve a JSON data to ListView in Android
Part IV – How to retrieve a complex typed JSON data in Android
Part V – How to retrieve a JSON data from a Secured Site with Basic Authentication
Part VI – How to Pass a JSON data to Php as a Parameters

Please read Part I of this blog, there you can create JSON data in php. I’m using Example 1 from that blog in this tutorial for making this blog to be simple. Hope you have created JSON data in php, so lets get started with retrieving in Android.

Step 1: Create a new project File -> Android Project. While creating a new project give activity name as MainActivity and copy paste this code.


import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.ProgressDialog;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */

private static String url = "http://geeks.gallery/android/android_json_demo_example.php";
String name, version;
TextView tv1;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

new JSONParse().execute();
}

private class JSONParse extends AsyncTask<String, String, JSONObject> {
private ProgressDialog pDialog;
@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
super.onPreExecute();
tv1 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);

pDialog = new ProgressDialog(MainActivity.this);
pDialog.setMessage("Loading Data ...");
pDialog.setIndeterminate(false);
pDialog.setCancelable(true);
pDialog.show();
tv1.setText("Getting Values Pls wait..");
}

@Override
protected JSONObject doInBackground(String... args) {
JsonParser jParser = new JsonParser();
// Getting JSON from URL
JSONObject json = jParser.getJSONFromUrl(url);
return json;
}

@Override
protected void onPostExecute(JSONObject json) {
try {
pDialog.dismiss();
name = json.getString("name");
version = json.getString("version");
tv1.setText(name + " - " + version);
} catch (JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}

Step 2: Create a new class, JsonParser.java and copy paste this code.


import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import android.util.Log;

public class JsonParser {
static InputStream is = null;
static JSONObject jObj = null;
static String json = "";

// constructor
public JsonParser() {
}

public JSONObject getJSONFromUrl(String url) {
// Making HTTP request
try {
// defaultHttpClient
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
is = httpEntity.getContent();
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
try {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + "n");
}
is.close();
json = sb.toString();
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("Buffer Error", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
}
// try parse the string to a JSON object
try {
jObj = new JSONObject(json);
} catch (JSONException e) {
Log.e("JSON Parser", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
}
// return JSON String
return jObj;
}
}

Step 3: Open your activity_main.xml and copy paste this code:


<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" >

<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:text="Medium Text"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

</RelativeLayout>

Step 4: Open your AndroidManifest.xml and add Internet Permission.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.geeks.gallery.json_demoexample"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >

<uses-sdk
android:minSdkVersion="16"
android:targetSdkVersion="19" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/>

<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:label="@string/app_name" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>

</manifest>

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