Max length of a string variable in Android

Question

There seems to be a max length to how many chars a string can hold. In my case it’s being populated with HTML via JSON and at around 1500 chars it crashes.

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Answer 1

The maximums (both practical and theoretical) are far higher. Theoretically, it's 2^31 - 1 characters. In practice, you'll be limited to available memory, but even on a mobile system you'll have more than 1.5KB.

You have a different issue. Use JSON Lint to first check that you have valid JSON.