How can I pass an Object of a class that has nested classes within it to an Activity?

Question

Let's say I have the following Class:

public class Person {

private String name;
private String phoneNumber;
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.
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private Address address;

}

Where Address is a different class. I want to pass an object of that class from one Activity to another in android, is that possible? and if so how? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This can be achieved by changing your class so that it implements either Serializable or Parcelable . You can then add the object to a Bundle, and retrieve it from the intent you use to start the new activity.

// setup data
Intent intent = new Intent(this, SecondActivity.class);
intent.putSerializable("my_key", personObject);
startActivity(intent);

// retrieve data in second activity
Person myPerson = getIntent().getExtras().getSerializable("my_key");