Get JSONArray without array name?

You don't need to call json.getJSONArray() at all, because the JSON you're working with already is an array. So, don't construct an instance of JSONObject; use a JSONArray. This should suffice:

// ...JSONArray json = new JSONArray(result);// ...for(int i=0;i<json.length();i++){                            HashMap<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();        JSONObject e = json.getJSONObject(i);    map.put("id",  String.valueOf(i));    map.put("name", "Earthquake name:" + e.getString("eqid"));    map.put("magnitude", "Magnitude: " +  e.getString("magnitude"));    mylist.add(map);            }

You can't use exactly the same methods as in the tutorial, because the JSON you're dealing with needs to be parsed into a JSONArray at the root, not a JSONObject.

JSONArray has a constructor which takes a String source (presumed to be an array).

So something like this

JSONArray array = new JSONArray(yourJSONArrayAsString);

I've assumed a named JSONArray is a JSONObject and accessed the data from the server to populate an Android GridView. For what it is worth my method is:

private String[] fillTable( JSONObject jsonObject ) {   String[] dummyData = new String[] {"1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7","1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7","1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", };  if( jsonObject != null ) {      ArrayList<String> data = new ArrayList<String>();      try {          // jsonArray looks like { "everything" : [{}, {},] }          JSONArray jsonArray = jsonObject.getJSONArray( "everything" );          int number = jsonArray.length(); //How many rows have got from the database?          Log.i( Constants.INFORMATION, "Number of ows returned:  " + Integer.toString( number ) );                  // Array elements look like this          //{"success":1,"error":0,"name":"English One","owner":"Tutor","description":"Initial Alert","posted":"2013-08-09 15:35:40"}          for( int element = 0; element < number; element++ ) { //visit each element             JSONObject jsonObject_local = jsonArray.getJSONObject( element );             //  Overkill on the error/success checking             Log.e("JSON SUCCESS", Integer.toString( jsonObject_local.getInt(Constants.KEY_SUCCESS) ) );             Log.e("JSON ERROR", Integer.toString( jsonObject_local.getInt(Constants.KEY_ERROR) ) );                if ( jsonObject_local.getInt( Constants.KEY_SUCCESS) == Constants.JSON_SUCCESS ) {                   String name = jsonObject_local.getString( Constants.KEY_NAME );                   data.add( name );                   String owner = jsonObject_local.getString( Constants.KEY_OWNER );                   data.add( owner );                   String description = jsonObject_local.getString( Constants.KEY_DESCRIPTION );                   Log.i( "DESCRIPTION", description );                   data.add( description );                    String date = jsonObject_local.getString( Constants.KEY_DATE );                   data.add( date );                }                else {                    for( int i = 0; i < 4; i++ ) {                        data.add( "ERROR" );                    }                }          }  }  //JSON object is null  catch ( JSONException jsone) {      Log.e( "JSON EXCEPTION", jsone.getMessage() );  }      dummyData = data.toArray( dummyData );  }  return dummyData;

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