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yadin michaeli
Courses Plus Student 5,423 PointsDidn't get this Parcelable! :(
Hello.
That starting to be really really confusing i didn't get this Parcelable thing and what it doing please help me understand this!
yadin michaeli
Courses Plus Student 5,423 PointsHello David thank you very much for the answer i think it now clear to me :)
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Tonnie Fanadez
UX Design Techdegree Graduate 22,796 PointsOnce you get what parcelable is, there is a plugin that can be downloaded to serialize data.... watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI5IMCCiwbA .
David Tran
Courses Plus Student 12,429 PointsDavid Tran
Courses Plus Student 12,429 PointsI think it may be better explained in future classes? I'm new to this too.
But from what I understand: in Android, we can't pass objects to activities because of the way "activities are created and destroyed". The solution is to serialize the data. Android provides a "Parcelable" interface to do this. The way I think of it, serializing data is translating data from one state to another state so something else can read and use this data on the other side.