Sending an object to a service through Intent without binding

Question

Is is possible to send an object to an Android Service through an Intent without actually binding to the service? Or maybe another way for the Service to access Objects...

Answer 1

If you don't want to implement Parcelable and your object is serializable

use this

In the sender Activiy

Intent intent = new Intent(activity, MyActivity.class);

Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
bundle.putSerializable("my object", myObject);

intent.putExtras(bundle);

startActivity(intent);

In the receiver:

myObject = (MyObject) getIntent().getExtras().getSerializable("my object");

Works fine for me try it. But the object must be serializable :)