Issue: Passing large data to second Activity

Question

I\'ve got an strange issue. I was looking around the web but didn\'t find an answer. I\'m still a beginner in android programming. So let\'s go:

All I want to do is

Answer 1

I faced this TransactionTooLargeException issue recently and was looking for a possible solution to avoid it. At last, I couldn't find anything which would work. In most of the answers, you will find people recommending different ways to avoid this exception, but a proper example wasn't available.

Here's what I have done to fix this issue, this might not be an ideal solution at a few places and has some limitation as well.

Step 1 - Write a class which will convert the bundle into a string and store it in Shared Preference.

public class ActivityBridge {

    private static final String KEY_ACTIVITY_BRIDGE = "ACTIVITY_BRIDGE";
    private final Context context;
    private SharedPreferences sharedPreferences;


    public ActivityBridge(Context context) {
        this.context = context;

        sharedPreferences = context.getSharedPreferences(KEY_ACTIVITY_BRIDGE, Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
    }


    @SuppressLint("ApplySharedPref")
    public void putData(Bundle bundle, Intent intent) {
        sharedPreferences.edit()
                .putString(
                        intent.toString(),
                        Base64.encodeToString(bundleToBytes(bundle), 0)
                )
                .commit();
    }


    @SuppressLint("ApplySharedPref")
    public Bundle getData(Intent intent) {
        Bundle bundle;
        final String bundleString = sharedPreferences.getString(intent.toString(), "");

        if (TextUtils.isEmpty(bundleString)) {
            return null;
        } else {
            bundle = bytesToBundle(Base64.decode(bundleString, 0));
        }

        sharedPreferences.edit()
                .clear()
                .commit();

        return bundle;
    }


    public byte[] bundleToBytes(Bundle bundle) {
        Parcel parcel = Parcel.obtain();
        parcel.writeBundle(bundle);
        byte[] bytes = parcel.marshall();
        parcel.recycle();
        return bytes;
    }


    public Bundle bytesToBundle(byte[] bytes) {
        Parcel parcel = Parcel.obtain();
        parcel.unmarshall(bytes, 0, bytes.length);
        parcel.setDataPosition(0);
        Bundle bundle = parcel.readBundle(context.getClassLoader());
        parcel.recycle();
        return bundle;
    }
}

Step 2 - Usage

While creating Intent

         Intent intent = new Intent(ActivityA.this, ActivityB.class);

         Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
         bundle.putString("<KEY>", "<VALUE>");
         new ActivityBridge(ActivityA.this).putData(bundle, intent);

         startActivity(intent);

while extracting Bundle

    Bundle bundle = new ActivityBridge(this).getData(getIntent());

Note: This solution clears the stored Bundle after being read and will not return the Bundle if the Activity is recreated. This is a workaround and any suggestion or issues will be highly appreciated.