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 tedi
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:2.8.5' // Old 2.8.2
}
Add following dependency or download Gson jar file
implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.6'
Follow github repo for documentation and more.
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'
}
Gradle:
dependencies {
implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.5'
}
Maven:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
<artifactId>gson</artifactId>
<version>2.8.5</version>
</dependency>
Gson jar downloads are available from Maven Central.
There is no need of adding JAR to your project by yourself, just add dependency in build.gradle (Module lavel). ALSO always try to use the upgraded version, as of now is
dependencies {
implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.5'
}
As every incremental version has some bugs fixes or up-gradations as mentioned here
If you are going to use it with Retrofit library, I suggest you to use Square's gson library as:
implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-gson:2.4.0'