Android JSON Parsing Tutorial 1 - Overview of JSON

Join complete course at: http://www.wingnity.com/android Download the source code: http://www.wingnity.com/blog/android-json-parsing-and-image-loading-tutorial/ ----------- All Videos on JSON in a Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lr37suTPpg&list=PLsoBxH455yoZZeeza9TiG8I9dGP0zz5o9 ----------- In this tutorial we will learn how to parse JSON data in Android and how to load the images from web. Also we will customize a list view to display the JSON data. For those who don't know what is JSON, a quick explanation is given below: *JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation *It's a light-weight data interchange format *It is easy for humans to read and write and easy for machines to parse and generate. ------JSON is made up of three parts: 1. Key-Value Pairs separated by colons : * "firstName":"John" ------- "firstName" is KEY, "John" is VALUE 2. JSON Arrays * JSON Array is a collection of JSON Objects and it is represented by square brackets 3. JSON Objects * JSON Objects can contain other objects or JSON Arrays and it is represented by curly brackets --------------------------------- Please share and ask questions.