[loeschg]

An application I'm currently building (shameless plug - www.quaffic.com) will definitely benefit from this post. If nothing else, I feel affirmed that we're on the right track. From what you're saying, the value of ACRA is huge. That's my big takeaway at this point. I wondered what the normal process was for getting crash reports from users.

Also, what did you end up doing to alleviate your JSONObject problem? JSONSmart?

[buerkle]

The article said they use Jackson for parsing json. A great library by the way.

[biafra]

I use Google GSON on Android. Also a great library for serializing and deserializing JSON. I did not yet try the streaming api.

[loeschg]

Missed that. Thanks. I'll tuck that little tidbit away for later use.

[triathlete]

Parsing json is a pain in android. You have to do so may things to do what should be a simple straightforward thing. One article mentioned that library but i never looked at it.

[njern]

I can definitely recommend Jackson. Performance is stellar and it's easy to use.

It does make your APK a bit bigger (in our case, about 20% of the APK size comes from Jackson) so if you're only going to be parsing very little JSON, you can still make do with JSONObject.

[maatanin]

Another neat library is JSON Simple if you looked for SAX style json parsing.

http://code.google.com/p/json-simple/