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Andrés Núñez Visbal
3,652 PointsA less annoying way to pass arrays of objects?
Hi to everyone,
In some videos before I don't remember if it was a Teacher's note or an Extra credit there was documentation about 3rd party libraries to work better with JSON like Gson and Jackson. So my question is, Is it necessary to do all the Parcelable things or is it better to parce my Objects to Strings (using the libraries) and then parce the Strings back to Objects?
Maybe the Parcelable way uses less resources of the phone or am I missing something?
1 Answer
Jon Kussmann
Courses Plus Student 7,254 PointsA library like Gson makes it easier to convert JSON into an object model. If you still want to pass an array of objects around, the best way is to still implement the Parcelable interface.
Andrés Núñez Visbal
3,652 PointsAndrés Núñez Visbal
3,652 PointsBut you can also convert a object model into JSON by using Gson, and then pass this JSON by putExtra and then in the other activity receive the JSON and parcing it back to the object model.
Jon Kussmann
Courses Plus Student 7,254 PointsJon Kussmann
Courses Plus Student 7,254 PointsYes, I suppose you could.
It's a little more of a "hacky" way of doing it, but that looks like it would work.
From what I'm seeing you shouldn't notice a significant performance difference.