Convert String to array in android from json response

Question

I am getting json response in array form like this

 ["Monday","Wednesday","Friday"]

, but it is not saving as a array in android, I am storing that in a string like this

 String daysOfInterest = map.get("daysOfinterest");

 [{"careTypeId":"10","careTypeName":"Vacation Care","daysOfinterest":["Tuesday","Thursday","Saturday"],"childDaysOfInterestId"‌​:"424"},
  {"careTypeId":"10","careTypeName":"Vacation Care","daysOfinterest":["Monday","Wednesday","Friday"],"childDaysOfInterestId":"‌​425"}] 

this is my response and I am storing that daysofInterest in hashmap...and getting using hashmap

But I want to get that in a array form

Answer 1

you can convert the json array into a java array with this

ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();     
JSONArray jsonArray = (JSONArray)jsonObject; 
if (jsonArray != null) { 
   int len = jsonArray.length();
   for (int i=0;i<len;i++){ 
    list.add(jsonArray.get(i).toString());
   } 
} 
String[] myArray = list.toArray(new String[list.size()]);

then you can pass the array elements to your map. more info here Convert Json Array to normal Java Array

Answer 2

GsonBuilder gsonBuilder = new GsonBuilder();
Gson gson = gsonBuilder.create();
Days[] daysArray = gson.fromJson(jsonString, Days[].class);

Here is Gson library and here is example.

Answer 3

Hope this is useful.

yourstring is ["AA", "BB", "CC"]

if (!yourstring.equals("")) {
    String[] type = yourstring
    .replace("[", "")
    .replace("]", "")
    .replace("\"", "")
    .split(",");
}