Question: I am working on an Android application. In my app I have to convert a string to JSON Object, then parse the values. I checked for a solution in Stackoverflow and found similar issue here [link](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5245840/how-to-convert-string-to-jsonobject-in-java)

The solution is like this

```
       `{"phonetype":"N95","cat":"WP"}`
        JSONObject jsonObj = new JSONObject("{\"phonetype\":\"N95\",\"cat\":\"WP\"}");

```

I use the same way in my code . My string is

```
{"ApiInfo":{"description":"userDetails","status":"success"},"userDetails":{"Name":"somename","userName":"value"},"pendingPushDetails":[]}

string mystring= mystring.replace("\"", "\\\"");

```

And after replace I got the result as this

```
{\"ApiInfo\":{\"description\":\"userDetails\",\"status\":\"success\"},\"userDetails\":{\"Name\":\"Sarath Babu\",\"userName\":\"sarath.babu.sarath babu\",\"Token\":\"ZIhvXsZlKCNL6Xj9OPIOOz3FlGta9g\",\"userId\":\"118\"},\"pendingPushDetails\":[]}

```

when I execute `JSONObject jsonObj = new JSONObject(mybizData);`

I am getting the below JSON exception

> 
> org.json.JSONException: Expected literal value at character 1 of
> 
> 
> 

Please help me to solve my issue.

Answer: 
You just need the lines of code as below:

```
   try {
        String myjsonString = "{\"phonetype\":\"N95\",\"cat\":\"WP\"}";
        JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(myjsonString );
        //displaying the JSONObject as a String
        Log.d("JSONObject = ", jsonObject.toString());
        //getting specific key values
        Log.d("phonetype = ", jsonObject.getString("phonetype"));
        Log.d("cat = ", jsonObject.getString("cat");
    }catch (Exception ex) {
         StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
         ex.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(stringWriter));
         Log.e("exception ::: ", stringwriter.toString());
    }

```
Using Kotlin

```
    val data = "{\"ApiInfo\":{\"description\":\"userDetails\",\"status\":\"success\"},\"userDetails\":{\"Name\":\"somename\",\"userName\":\"value\"},\"pendingPushDetails\":[]}\n"

try {
      val jsonObject = JSONObject(data)
      val infoObj = jsonObject.getJSONObject("ApiInfo")
    } catch (e: Exception) {
    }

```