How to pass an object from one activity to another on Android

Question

I am trying to work on sending an object of my customer class from one Activity and display it in another Activity.

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Answer 1

In my experience there are three main solutions, each with their disadvantages and advantages:

1. Implementing Parcelable

2. Implementing Serializable

3. Using a light-weight event bus library of some sort (for example, Greenrobot's EventBus or Square's Otto)

Parcelable - fast and Android standard, but it has lots of boilerplate code and requires hard-coded strings for reference when pulling values out the intent (non-strongly typed).

Serializable - close to zero boilerplate, but it is the slowest approach and also requires hard-coded strings when pulling values out the intent (non-strongly typed).

Event Bus - zero boilerplate, fastest approach, and does not require hard-coded strings, but it does require an additional dependency (although usually lightweight, ~40 KB)

I posted a very detailed comparison around these three approaches, including efficiency benchmarks.