Parsing Huge JSON File

[Andy Crowther]

I'm looking for some advice on how I do something.  I have a weather app and want to be able to add locations.  I'm using OpenWeather API and they have a JSON file with about 40,000 cities listed as possible options.

In my app, how would I let the user search these cities?  The JSON file is about 12meg, so I don't really want to put the whole file in, do I?

The JSON has lots more info per city than I need, I just need the name and city code which could actually go into a HashMap.

How should I do this?

Thanks!

[Bear Bibeault]

I'd write a loader to take the JSON information and put it into a database for quick searches.

I'm pretty sure I heard that Android has a lightweight relational DB, but that's hearsay.