resolve conflict

app/build.gradle

@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ dependencies {
 
     implementation 'com.github.TeamNewPipe:NewPipeExtractor:77a74b8'
 
-
     testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
     testImplementation 'org.mockito:mockito-core:1.10.19'
 
@@ -66,7 +65,6 @@ dependencies {
     implementation "com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:$supportLibVersion"
     implementation "com.android.support:preference-v14:$supportLibVersion"
 
-    implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.2'
     implementation 'ch.acra:acra:4.9.2'
 
     implementation 'com.nostra13.universalimageloader:universal-image-loader:1.9.5'

app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/about/AboutActivity.java

@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ public class AboutActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
             new SoftwareComponent("Giga Get", "2014", "Peter Cai", "https://github.com/PaperAirplane-Dev-Team/GigaGet", StandardLicenses.GPL2),
             new SoftwareComponent("NewPipe Extractor", "2017", "Christian Schabesberger", "https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor", StandardLicenses.GPL3),
             new SoftwareComponent("Jsoup", "2017", "Jonathan Hedley", "https://github.com/jhy/jsoup", StandardLicenses.MIT),
-            new SoftwareComponent("Google Gson", "2008", "Google Inc", "https://github.com/google/gson", StandardLicenses.APACHE2),
             new SoftwareComponent("Rhino", "2015", "Mozilla", "https://www.mozilla.org/rhino/", StandardLicenses.MPL2),
             new SoftwareComponent("ACRA", "2013", "Kevin Gaudin", "http://www.acra.ch", StandardLicenses.APACHE2),
             new SoftwareComponent("Universal Image Loader", "2011 - 2015", "Sergey Tarasevich", "https://github.com/nostra13/Android-Universal-Image-Loader", StandardLicenses.APACHE2),

app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/player/PlayerState.java

@@ -2,17 +2,12 @@ package org.schabi.newpipe.player;
 
 import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
 import android.support.annotation.Nullable;
-import android.util.Log;
-
-import com.google.gson.Gson;
-import com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException;
 
 import org.schabi.newpipe.player.playqueue.PlayQueue;
 
 import java.io.Serializable;
 
 public class PlayerState implements Serializable {
-    private final static String TAG = "PlayerState";
 
     @NonNull private final PlayQueue playQueue;
     private final int repeatMode;
@@ -41,21 +36,6 @@ public class PlayerState implements Serializable {
     // Serdes
     //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////*/
 
-    @Nullable
-    public static PlayerState fromJson(@NonNull final String json) {
-        try {
-            return new Gson().fromJson(json, PlayerState.class);
-        } catch (JsonSyntaxException error) {
-            Log.e(TAG, "Failed to deserialize PlayerState from json=[" + json + "]", error);
-            return null;
-        }
-    }
-
-    @NonNull
-    public String toJson() {
-        return new Gson().toJson(this);
-    }
-
     /*//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
     // Getters
     //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////*/

app/src/main/java/us/shandian/giga/get/DownloadManagerImpl.java

@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ package us.shandian.giga.get;
 import android.support.annotation.Nullable;
 import android.util.Log;
 
-import com.google.gson.Gson;
-
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FilenameFilter;
 import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
@@ -156,16 +154,8 @@ public class DownloadManagerImpl implements DownloadManager {
 
             for (File sub : subs) {
                 if (sub.isFile() && sub.getName().endsWith(".giga")) {
-                    String str = Utility.readFromFile(sub.getAbsolutePath());
+                    DownloadMission mis = Utility.readFromFile(sub.getAbsolutePath());
-                    if (str != null && !str.trim().equals("")) {
+                    if (mis != null) {
-
-                        if (DEBUG) {
-                            Log.d(TAG, "loading mission " + sub.getName());
-                            Log.d(TAG, str);
-                        }
-
-                        DownloadMission mis = new Gson().fromJson(str, DownloadMission.class);
-
                         if (mis.finished) {
                             if (!sub.delete()) {
                                 Log.w(TAG, "Unable to delete .giga file: " + sub.getPath());

app/src/main/java/us/shandian/giga/get/DownloadMission.java

@@ -4,9 +4,8 @@ import android.os.Handler;
 import android.os.Looper;
 import android.util.Log;
 
-import com.google.gson.Gson;
-
 import java.io.File;
+import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.HashMap;
@@ -18,7 +17,9 @@ import us.shandian.giga.util.Utility;
 
 import static org.schabi.newpipe.BuildConfig.DEBUG;
 
-public class DownloadMission {
+public class DownloadMission implements Serializable {
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 0L;
+
     private static final String TAG = DownloadMission.class.getSimpleName();
 
     public interface MissionListener {
@@ -79,7 +80,6 @@ public class DownloadMission {
     private transient boolean mWritingToFile;
 
     private static final int NO_IDENTIFIER = -1;
-    private long db_identifier = NO_IDENTIFIER;
 
     public DownloadMission() {
     }
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ public class DownloadMission {
      */
     private void doWriteThisToFile() {
         synchronized (blockState) {
-            Utility.writeToFile(getMetaFilename(), new Gson().toJson(this));
+            Utility.writeToFile(getMetaFilename(), this);
         }
     }
 

app/src/main/java/us/shandian/giga/util/Utility.java

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import android.content.ClipboardManager;
 import android.content.Context;
 import android.support.annotation.ColorRes;
 import android.support.annotation.DrawableRes;
+import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
 import android.support.annotation.Nullable;
 import android.widget.Toast;
 
@@ -16,6 +17,9 @@ import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
+import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
+import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.security.MessageDigest;
 import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
 
@@ -51,58 +55,48 @@ public class Utility {
         }
     }
 
-    public static void writeToFile(String fileName, String content) {
+    public static void writeToFile(@NonNull String fileName, @NonNull Serializable serializable) {
-        try {
+        ObjectOutputStream objectOutputStream = null;
-            writeToFile(fileName, content.getBytes("UTF-8"));
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-
-        }
-    }
-
-    public static void writeToFile(String fileName, byte[] content) {
-        File f = new File(fileName);
-
-        if (!f.exists()) {
-            try {
-                f.createNewFile();
-            } catch (Exception e) {
-
-            }
-        }
 
         try {
-            FileOutputStream opt = new FileOutputStream(f, false);
+            objectOutputStream = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(fileName));
-            opt.write(content, 0, content.length);
+            objectOutputStream.writeObject(serializable);
-            opt.close();
         } catch (Exception e) {
-
+            //nothing to do
-        }
         }
 
-    public static String readFromFile(String file) {
+        if(objectOutputStream != null) {
             try {
-            File f = new File(file);
+                objectOutputStream.close();
-
-            if (!f.exists() || !f.canRead()) {
-                return null;
-            }
-
-            BufferedInputStream ipt = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(f));
-
-            byte[] buf = new byte[512];
-            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
-
-            while (ipt.available() > 0) {
-                int len = ipt.read(buf, 0, 512);
-                sb.append(new String(buf, 0, len, "UTF-8"));
-            }
-
-            ipt.close();
-            return sb.toString();
             } catch (Exception e) {
-            return null;
+                //nothing to do
             }
         }
+    }
+
+    @Nullable
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    public static <T> T readFromFile(String file) {
+        T object = null;
+        ObjectInputStream objectInputStream = null;
+
+        try {
+            objectInputStream = new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream(file));
+            object = (T) objectInputStream.readObject();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            //nothing to do
+        }
+
+        if(objectInputStream != null){
+            try {
+                objectInputStream .close();
+            } catch (Exception e) {
+                //nothing to do
+            }
+        }
+
+        return object;
+    }
 
     @Nullable
     public static String getFileExt(String url) {