I use the code below (to retrieve data from mysql ) and it runs without problem in android emulator version 4
,but when I use the same code in version 2.1 the result appear in logcat 

and this is the error :

```
 parssing error org.json.JSONException: A JSONArray text must start with '[' at character 1 of <br />

```

and this is the error when using 2.2
 parssingorg.json.JSONException: Value of type java.lang.String cannot be converted to JSONArray

```java
     protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
    MealActivity.foodList = new ArrayList<ItemInList>();     

   try
   {
        ArrayList<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
        nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair",k));
        HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("http://10.0.2.2/y.php");
        httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs,"UTF-8"));
        HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
         is = entity.getContent();
         }
    catch(Exception e)
      {
         Log.e("log_tag", "Error in http connection "+e.toString());
        }
        //convert response to string
        try{
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is,"utf-8"),8);
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        String line = null;
        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
        sb.append(line + "\n");
        }
        is.close();
        result=sb.toString();

          }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
         Log.e("log_tag", "Error converting result "+e.toString());
         }

        //parsing reesult 

        try{
         Log.e("log_tag", " result before parsing " + result);

         String foodName="";
         int Description=0;

        jArray = new JSONArray(result);
        JSONObject json_data = null;

        for (int i = 0; i < jArray.length(); i++) {
         json_data = jArray.getJSONObject(i);
         if(json_data!=null ) 
          {
             foodName=json_data.getString("Food");
             Description=json_data.getInt("Calories");              
             item.setName(foodName);
             item.setDescription(Description);
             item.setSelected(false);
             MealActivity.foodList.add(item);   
             item=new ItemInList();

                            }
                         }

```