import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;

Type type = new TypeToken<Map<String, String>>(){}.getType();
Map<String, String> myMap = gson.fromJson("{'k1':'apple','k2':'orange'}", type);

You now can parse nested Json to Map directly, but you should be aware in case you try to parse Json to Map<String, Object> type: it will raise exception. To fix this, just declare the result as LinkedTreeMap type. Example below:

String nestedJSON = "{\"id\":\"1\",\"message\":\"web_didload\",\"content\":{\"success\":1}}";
Gson gson = new Gson();
LinkedTreeMap result = gson.fromJson(nestedJSON , LinkedTreeMap.class);

to parse array in Json

[
      {
           id : '1',
           title: 'sample title',
           ....
      },
      {
           id : '2',
           title: 'sample title',
           ....
     },
      ...
 ]

Post class:

 public class Post {

      private String id;
      private String title;

      /* getters & setters */
 }

You can parse the JSONArray directly, don't need to wrap your Post class with PostEntity one more time and don't need new JSONObject().toString() either:

Gson gson = new Gson();
String jsonOutput = "Your JSON String";
Type listType = new TypeToken<List<Post>>(){}.getType();
List<Post> posts = gson.fromJson(jsonOutput, listType);