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

Like Bino said, you need to have your custom object implement the Parcelable interface if you want to pass it to a service via an intent. This will make the object "serializable" in an Android IPC-wise sense so that you can pass them to an Intent's object putExtra(String, Parcelable) call.

For simple primitive types, there's already a bunch of setExtra(String, primitive type) methods. As I understand you, however, this is not an option for you which is why you should go for a Parcel.