Is there any easy way to sort a JSONArray of objects by an attribute in Android?

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David Brown · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-28 21:31:47Z

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Perhaps using the Google GSON library you can deserialise the array to a typed collection of objects, and then using Collections perform a sort.

Look at 6th line in on the following link.. Looks a bit messy but might be quickest way..

answered Jan 28, 2011 at 21:31

David Brown

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I was hoping to avoid deserializing into objects as the objects contain a lot of data and cost a lot to process.

Where is the JSON sourced from?

I get all the JSON via a webresponse string that I create a JSONArray from.

Can you not perform the sort on the server side then so the data is already in the order you require before pulling it to the device?