Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Adding a Suspect to the Model Layer

Next, return to Crime.java and add a new JSON constant and a member variable to give Crime a field that will hold the name of a suspect. Also, modify the JSON methods to serialize the suspect into and out of JSON code and add new accessor methods.

Listing 21.2  Adding suspect field (Crime.java)

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