After more than fifteen function-relevant Gson tutorials we'll move to something more developer focused. By default Gson will create minified JSON strings. This is important to reduce the amount of data being transferred over the network. However, especially with large models, for us developers it can be challenging to read …

If you're using the code obfuscator ProGuard before releasing apps, this will be a valuable tutorial for you. We'll go through a standard ProGuard configuration, which should prevent unexpected runtime exceptions in your apps when you're using ProGuard and Gson. If you're not using ProGuard, you can check our other …

Gson is awesome in making conversion from JSON to Java classes easy for us developers. With a few lines of code, you can pass JSON and get fully-mapped Java objects back. However, one pain point of using Gson is setting up appropriate Java POJO classes. Creating a POJO class based …

In the previous Gson blog posts, we've always read and written JSON from and to fully allocated memory objects. We assumed that the application already has the entire JSON file in memory. In this blog post, we'll explore Gson's support in cases that isn't possible. Gson makes it easy to …

In this blog post, we'll get practical one more time. Often Android apps require to store smaller objects, for example user information. On one hand, it's often overkill to add a database to the app for just this purpose. On the other hand, it's a hassle to store everything in …

In this blog post, we'll explore an interesting behavior of Gson: HTML escaping. By default, Gson escapes typical HTML characters, like < or > to \u003c and \u003e. If your server can handle these tags just fine, you might be interested in disabling this behavior. In this tutorial we'll show …

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 …

In this blog post, we'll tackle one of the most complicated issues of any data mapping: dates and times. Over the last few decades programmers have developed hundreds of different formats of stating the date and time. Keep reading, if you want to learn how you can utilize some standard …