Gson library in Android Studio

Question

Can someone give me step by step guide to add the Gson library to an Android project?

I tried the JSON built-in library but that seems to be a bit tedious right now. I saw a couple of examples based on Gson, and that seems really easy.

Answer 1

Add following dependency to build.gradle:

implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.7'

Or download the JAR file from Maven by clicking a release and finding the .jar file.

Replace 2.8.7 with the latest version from Maven.

Visit the GitHub repo for documentation and more.

Answer 2

Read Google-gson

Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. It can also be used to convert a JSON string to an equivalent Java object.

Add the following line to your MODULE LEVEL build.gradle configuration:

dependencies {
     implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.8' // Old 2.8.6
}

Answer 3

Use gradle dependencies to get the Gson in your project. Your application build.gradle should look like this-

dependencies {
  implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.2'
}