Convert normal Java Array or ArrayList to Json Array in android

Is there any way to convert a normal Java array or ArrayList to a Json Array in Android to pass the JSON object to a webservice?

If you want or need to work with a Java array then you can always use the java.util.Arrays utility classes' static asList() method to convert your array to a List.

Something along those lines should work.

String mStringArray[] = { "String1", "String2" };

JSONArray mJSONArray = new JSONArray(Arrays.asList(mStringArray));

Beware that code is written offhand so consider it pseudo-code.

ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
list.add("blah");
list.add("bleh");
JSONArray jsArray = new JSONArray(list);

This is only an example using a string arraylist

example key = "Name" value = "Xavier" and the value depends on number of array you pass in

 try
      {
      JSONArray jArry=new JSONArray();
      for (int i=0;i<3;i++)
      {
       JSONObject jObjd=new JSONObject();
       jObjd.put("key", value);
       jObjd.put("key", value);
       jArry.put(jObjd);
      }
      Log.e("Test", jArry.toString());
      }
 catch(JSONException ex)
     {

     }

you need external library

 json-lib-2.2.2-jdk15.jar

List mybeanList = new ArrayList();
mybeanList.add("S");
mybeanList.add("b");

JSONArray jsonA = JSONArray.fromObject(mybeanList);
System.out.println(jsonA);

Google Gson is the best library http://code.google.com/p/google-gson/

This is the correct syntax:

String arlist1 [] = { "value1`", "value2", "value3" };
JSONArray jsonArray1 = new JSONArray(arlist1);