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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Working with JSON Introducing JSONObject

Posted by yadin michaeli
yadin michaeli
Courses Plus Student 5,423 Points

Didn't get this JSONObject

Hello.

I Didn't actually get this JSONObject method that we write can somebody explain it to me please?

1 Answer

Ben Deitch
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Ben Deitch
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Deitch
Ben Deitch
Treehouse Teacher

Sure. So we've got our JSON data as a String, which is great, but it's kind of hard to access any individual piece of data in that String. JSONObject takes in the JSON String and gives us an object that makes it a lot easier to access each piece of data.

yadin michaeli
yadin michaeli
Courses Plus Student 5,423 Points

Hey Ben thanks for answering! i have 2 more question please...1 the JSON data String is that response.body.string? and 2 i dindnt get what is that string name? like we wrote "timezone"?

Ben Deitch
Ben Deitch
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Deitch
Ben Deitch
Treehouse Teacher
  1. Yep! You can log this and you should see a long String of JSON data.
  2. To get a piece of String data from a JSONObject you use the 'getString' method and pass in the name of that data. So we're just retrieving the 'timezone' property from our JSONObject.
yadin michaeli
yadin michaeli
Courses Plus Student 5,423 Points

Ohhhh thank you very very much! :)