How to use the Parcelable class properly in Android

Question

I have a class (below) that I want to send to a Service Class through an Intent. I have implemented the Parcelable interface but am unsure how to actually send and retrieve the

Answer 1

In your writeToParcel function, you need to write which state objects you want to the Parcel, for instance:

@Override
public void writeToParcel(Parcel dest, int flags) {
    dest.writeString(urlPath);
    dest.writeString(hostname);
}

It doesn't matter which order you write the objects, so long as you read them back in in the same order:

@Override
public UrlParamsHelper(Parcel in) {
    urlPath = in.readString();
    hostname = in.readString();
}

The problem is that you can only read and write the object types mentioned in the documentation for Parcel, so it may be difficult to save absolutely everything.