How can I parse a local JSON file from assets folder into a ListView?

Question

As Faizan describes in their answer here:

First of all read the Json File from your assests file using below code.

and then you can simply read this string return by this function as

public String loadJSONFromAsset() {
    String json = null;
    try {
        InputStream is = getActivity().getAssets().open("yourfilename.json");
        int size = is.available();
        byte[] buffer = new byte[size];
        is.read(buffer);
        is.close();
        json = new String(buffer, "UTF-8");
    } catch (IOException ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
        return null;
    }
    return json;
}

and use this method like that

    try {
        JSONObject obj = new JSONObject(loadJSONFromAsset());
        JSONArray m_jArry = obj.getJSONArray("formules");
        ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> formList = new ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>();
        HashMap<String, String> m_li;

        for (int i = 0; i < m_jArry.length(); i++) {
            JSONObject jo_inside = m_jArry.getJSONObject(i);
            Log.d("Details-->", jo_inside.getString("formule"));
            String formula_value = jo_inside.getString("formule");
            String url_value = jo_inside.getString("url");

            //Add your values in your `ArrayList` as below:
            m_li = new HashMap<String, String>();
            m_li.put("formule", formula_value);
            m_li.put("url", url_value);

            formList.add(m_li);
        }
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

For further details regarding JSON Read HERE

{ // json object node
    "formules": [ // json array formules
    { // json object 
      "formule": "Linear Motion", // string
      "url": "qp1"
    }

What you are doing

  Context context = null; // context is null 
    try {
        String jsonLocation = AssetJSONFile("formules.json", context);

So change to

   try {
        String jsonLocation = AssetJSONFile("formules.json", CatList.this);

To parse

I believe you get the string from the assests folder.

try
{
String jsonLocation = AssetJSONFile("formules.json", context);
JSONObject jsonobject = new JSONObject(jsonLocation);
JSONArray jarray = (JSONArray) jsonobject.getJSONArray("formules");
for(int i=0;i<jarray.length();i++)
{
JSONObject jb =(JSONObject) jarray.get(i);
String formula = jb.getString("formule");
String url = jb.getString("url");
}
} catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
} catch (JSONException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
}

With Kotlin have this extension function to read the file return as string.

fun AssetManager.readAssetsFile(fileName : String): String = open(fileName).bufferedReader().use{it.readText()}

Parse the output string using any JSON parser.

Method to read JSON file from Assets folder and return as a string object.

public static String getAssetJsonData(Context context) {
            String json = null;
            try {
                InputStream is = context.getAssets().open("myJson.json");
                int size = is.available();
                byte[] buffer = new byte[size];
                is.read(buffer);
                is.close();
                json = new String(buffer, "UTF-8");
            } catch (IOException ex) {
                ex.printStackTrace();
                return null;
            }

            Log.e("data", json);
            return json;

        }

Now for parsing data in your activity:-

String data = getAssetJsonData(getApplicationContext());
        Type type = new TypeToken<Your Data model>() {
        }.getType();
  <Your Data model> modelObject = new Gson().fromJson(data, type);

Just summarising @libing's answer with a sample that worked for me.

val gson = Gson()
val todoItem: TodoItem = gson.fromJson(this.assets.readAssetsFile("versus.json"), TodoItem::class.java)

private fun AssetManager.readAssetsFile(fileName : String): String = open(fileName).bufferedReader().use{it.readText()}

Without this extension function the same can be achieved by using BufferedReader and InputStreamReader this way:

val i: InputStream = this.assets.open("versus.json")
val br = BufferedReader(InputStreamReader(i))
val todoItem: TodoItem = gson.fromJson(br, TodoItem::class.java)