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

Elsewhere in Stack Overflow there are mentions of a size limit on ArrayAdapter content. This may be your problem, not XML or Java strings in general.

Answer 2

Its the same as what Java offers. If I understand your question correctly, you are trying to read HTML data (as JSON) from a service and it is crashing after receiving certain response. If that is the case, try if the same operation works from your browser or through simple HTML form.

Answer 3

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.