Use Gson library to convert ArrayList to JsonArray.

Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().create();
JsonArray myCustomArray = gson.toJsonTree(myCustomList).getAsJsonArray();

As an additional answer, it can also be made shorter.

List<Customer> customerList = CustomerDB.selectAll();

JsonArray result = (JsonArray) new Gson().toJsonTree(customerList,
            new TypeToken<List<Customer>>() {
            }.getType());

Below code is using com.google.gson.JsonArray. I have printed the number of element in list as well as the elements in List

import java.util.ArrayList;

import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.JsonArray;
import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
import com.google.gson.JsonParser;


public class Test {

    static String str = "{ "+ 
            "\"client\":\"127.0.0.1\"," + 
            "\"servers\":[" + 
            "    \"8.8.8.8\"," + 
            "    \"8.8.4.4\"," + 
            "    \"156.154.70.1\"," + 
            "    \"156.154.71.1\" " + 
            "    ]" + 
            "}";

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        try {

            JsonParser jsonParser = new JsonParser();
            JsonObject jo = (JsonObject)jsonParser.parse(str);
            JsonArray jsonArr = jo.getAsJsonArray("servers");
            //jsonArr.
            Gson googleJson = new Gson();
            ArrayList jsonObjList = googleJson.fromJson(jsonArr, ArrayList.class);
            System.out.println("List size is : "+jsonObjList.size());
                    System.out.println("List Elements are  : "+jsonObjList.toString());


        } catch (Exception e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

}

OUTPUT

List size is : 4

List Elements are  : [8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, 156.154.70.1, 156.154.71.1]

My version of gson list deserialization using a helper class:

public List<E> getList(Class<E> type, JSONArray json) throws Exception {
    Gson gsonB = new GsonBuilder().setDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss").create();

    return gsonB.fromJson(json.toString(), new JsonListHelper<E>(type));
}



public class JsonListHelper<T> implements ParameterizedType {

  private Class<?> wrapped;

  public JsonListHelper(Class<T> wrapped) {
    this.wrapped = wrapped;
  }

  public Type[] getActualTypeArguments() {
    return new Type[] {wrapped};
  }

  public Type getRawType() {
    return List.class;
  }

  public Type getOwnerType() {
    return null;
  }

}

Usage

List<Object> objects = getList(Object.class, myJsonArray);

The org.json based classes included in Android don't have any features related to converting Java POJOs to/from JSON.

If you have a list of some class (List<GroupItem>) and you absolutely need to convert that to a org.json.JSONArray you have two choices:

A) Use Gson or Jackson to convert to JSON, then parse that JSON into a JSONArray:

List<GroupItem> list = ...
String json = new Gson().toJson(list);
JSONArray array = new JSONArray(json);

B) Write code to create the JSONArray and the JSONObjects it will contain from your Java objects:

JSONArray array = new JSONArray();
for (GroupItem gi : list)
{
    JSONObject obj = new JSONObject();
    obj.put("fieldName", gi.fieldName);
    obj.put("fieldName2", gi.fieldName2);
    array.put(obj);
}

org.json and org.json.simple JSON parser use raw types of collections underneath. If you're looking for good Generics support try Google Gson. Here's how you would go about serializing your generic ArrayList with Gson:

Gson gson = new Gson();

ArrayList<String> arrayList= (ArrayList<String>) ClassName.getArrayList();

// Serializing to a JSON element node
JsonElement jsonElement = gson.toJsonTree(arrayList);
System.out.println(jsonElement.isJsonArray()); // true

// Or, directly to JSON string
String json = gson.toJson(arrayList);
System.out.println(json);

Here's how you would deserialize the same JSON string with its Generics intact:

Type type = new TypeToken<ArrayList<String>>(){}.getType();
ArrayList<String> arrayList = gson.fromJson(json, type);

If response in your marshal method is a DataResponse, then that's what you should be serializing.

Gson gson = new Gson();
gson.toJson(response);

That will give you the JSON output you are looking for.

Your JSON sample is:

{
    "status": "ok",
    "comment": "",
    "result": {
    "id": 276,
    "firstName": "mohamed",
    "lastName": "hussien",
    "players": [
            "player 1",
            "player 2",
            "player 3",
            "player 4",
            "player 5"
    ]
}

so if you want to save arraylist of modules in your SharedPrefrences so :

1- will convert your returned arraylist for json format using this method

public static String toJson(Object jsonObject) {
    return new Gson().toJson(jsonObject);
}

2- Save it in shared prefreneces

PreferencesUtils.getInstance(context).setString("players", toJson((.....ArrayList you want to convert.....)));

3- to retrieve it at any time get JsonString from Shared preferences like that

String playersString= PreferencesUtils.getInstance(this).getString("players");

4- convert it again to array list

public static Object fromJson(String jsonString, Type type) {
    return new Gson().fromJson(jsonString, type);
}

ArrayList<String> playersList= (ArrayList<String>) fromJson(playersString,
                    new TypeToken<ArrayList<String>>() {
                    }.getType());

this solution also doable if you want to parse ArrayList of Objects Hope it's help you by using Gson Library .