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Gson Appendix — Overview of Alternatives

In this blog post, we'll give you a list of some alternatives to Gson. Since it's such an important task of converting Java objects to JSON and vice versa, quite a few libraries popped up.

We personally like Gson a lot, but there is no reason not to broaden one's horizons and check alternative libraries. If you're interested in some other options, keep reading.

Of course, this will not be the only post in our Gson series. If you're interested in the other topics, check out our series outline:

Gson Series Overview

  1. Getting Started with Java-JSON Serialization & Deserialization
  2. Mapping of Nested Objects
  3. Mapping of Arrays and Lists of Objects
  4. Mapping of Maps
  5. Mapping of Sets
  6. Mapping of Null Values
  7. Automatically Generate POJO Classes from JSON Response
  1. How to Change the Naming of Fields with @SerializedName
  2. Multiple Deserialization Names with @SerializedName
  3. How to Ignore Fields with @Expose
  1. Basics & Naming Policies
  2. Force Serialization of null Values
  3. Exclusion Strategies
  4. Relax Gson with Lenient
  5. Special Values of Floats & Doubles
  6. Model Versioning
  7. Formatting of Dates & Custom Date/Time Mapping
  8. Pretty Printing
  9. HTML Escaping
  1. Mapping of Enums
  2. Mapping of Circular References
  3. Generics
  4. Custom Serialization for Simplification (Part 1)
  5. Changing the Default Serialization with Custom Serialization (Part 2)
  6. Custom Deserialization Basics
  7. Custom Instance Creator
  8. Customizing (De)Serialization via @JsonAdapter
  9. Custom Deserialization for Calculated Fields
  10. On-The-Fly-Parsing With Streams
  11. ProGuard Configuration
  1. Low Level Parsing
  2. Storing Data in Android's SharedPreferences
  3. How to Deserialize a List of Polymorphic Objects


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