What is the difference between gson and json? [closed]

Question

I see word 'gson' at various places in books related to android , blogs etc. Is it similar to kml in any way or it is different .

Answer 1

JSON is a data format that is human-readable and supported by a wide variety of languages. An example of JSON encoded data:

{
  "name":"John",
  "age":27,
  "interests":["running", "guitar", "foreign movies"],
  "favorites":{
               "color":"blue",
               "book":"Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid"
              }
}

GSON is a java API from Google that converts java objects to their JSON representations and vice-versa. Installation instructions and sample usage here.

Answer 2

Google Gson is a simple Java-based library to serialize Java objects to JSON and vice versa. It is an open-source library developed by Google.

The following points highlight why you should be using this library −

Standardized − Gson is a standardized library that is managed by Google.

Efficient − It is a reliable, fast, and efficient extension to the Java standard library. Optimized − The library is highly optimized.

Support Generics − It provides extensive support for generics.

Supports complex inner classes − It supports complex objects with deep inheritance hierarchies.

Answer 3

Gson is Java API,used to convert between Java objects and JSON objects.