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Passing ArrayList<Objects> to another Activity

I am trying to pass an ArrayList of Objects from one Activity to another. I am trying to implement the solution below, but getting an error message. Can someone please help out.

//to pass :
public ArrayList<FileInfo> audioFileArrayList = null;
audioFileArrayList = GetFileInfo(previewName, destFileName);

private ArrayList<FileInfo> GetFileInfo(String strPrevName, String strDestName) {
            ArrayList<FileInfo> file_info = new ArrayList<FileInfo>();
            FileInfo fi = new FileInfo();
            fi.setPrevName(strPrevName);
            fi.setDestinationFileName(strDestName);
            file_info.add(fi);

            return file_info;
      }

Intent i = new Intent(this, SavedAudio.class);
i.putParcelableArrayListExtra("ObjArray", (ArrayList<? extends Parcelable>) AudioFileArrayList);
startActivity(i);

// to retrieve object in second Activity
ArrayList<FileInfo> fileInfo = getIntent().getParcelableArrayListExtra("ObjArray");

Error Message:
Bound mismatch: The generic method getParcelableArrayListExtra(String) of type Intent is not applicable for the arguments (String). The inferred type FileInfo is not a valid substitute for the bounded parameter <T extends Parcelable>

Attached:
FileInfo Class
FileInfo.java

Santhana

Hi InfoTechEE,

From your Error Message it is clearly visible that FileInfo object should be a Parcelable.
Bound mismatch: The generic method getParcelableArrayListExtra(String) of type Intent is not applicable for the arguments (String). The inferred type FileInfo is not a valid substitute for the bounded parameter <T extends Parcelable>

InfoTechEE

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How do I modify the FileInfo class to be Parcelable?

I didn't realize it would be this difficult to pass an ArrayList from one Activity to another. It sounds like it should be very simple.

Here's a start, but I'm not sure what's suppose to be done here. The Android documentation doesn't make it any simpler either. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

import android.os.Parcel;
import android.os.Parcelable;

public class FileInfo implements Parcelable {

      private String prevName = "";
      private String destinationFileName = "";

      public void setPrevName(String previewName) {
            this.prevName = previewName;
      }

      public String getPrevName() {
            return prevName;
      }

      public void setDestinationFileName(String destFileName) {
            this.destinationFileName = destFileName;
      }

      public String getDestinationFileName() {
            return destinationFileName;
      }

      @Override
      public int describeContents() {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            return 0;
      }

      @Override
      public void writeToParcel(Parcel arg0, int arg1) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

      }

}

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Santhana

Hi InfoTechEE,

This is like an android way of doing interprocess communication....For that android defind this data structure called Parcel...

This is simillar to the j2sdk Serialization....

Refer this link....for more details...
http://prasanta-paul.blogspot.in/2010/06/android-parcelable-example.html

Passing ArrayList&lt;Objects&gt; to another Activity

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