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bahua
2y

Holy shit! Why is it so hard to find a JSON viewer for android that doesn't absolutely suck ass?

I want a viewer that:
-reads json from the clipboard
-queries json for strings in context
-allows copying of values, not the key and the value put together

Major bonus points:
-JSONPath querying
-Free/pay version without ads

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  • 3
    Why don't you try making your own?
    If the rest are shitty, yours can take off.
    I'd try with MIT App Inventor.
    I'd actually do it but I'm a bit busy rn.
  • 1
    Why are you doing dev work on your phone?
  • 2
    @homomorphicanus

    I'm not. What's wrong with using APIs for personal use?
  • 0
    I'm not entirely sure what the first two items mean.
    1. Reading json from the clipboard? what's there to read? do you mean being able to paste it into the tool and the pasted content instantly being formatting it as json?
    2. what does "in context" mean? do you mean you don't want to be able to search for plaintext like '{"key":"value"}' you only wanna be able to search within key names or within values?
  • 0
    @homomorphicanus I can see why. Sometimes I talk a long walk during my lunch break, looking at my work phone occasionally and talking on slack. Then it's nice to be able to quickly look up some api data.
  • 0
    @jiraTicket

    1. I mean I want to take a JSON response from an API client like Restler, copy it, and paste it into a JSON parser. It's overly laborious to write every response to a file, open that file with a parser, and then delete the file.

    2. I mean that if I'm looking at JSON list data in a parser, and I know I've piece of text, and want to find another piece of text that's associated with the same record, to inform a subsequent API call, I cannot see that data when the only search results are exact fields and values.
  • 0
    Currently I just use droidvim, which works well enough, but it's still a bit clunky for the job.
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