Intent not Serializable

Question

So I have an Activity that I want to pass trough an intent, but it keeps crashing with the following exception: java.io.NotSerializableException: android.content.Intent

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements Serializable{

/* some code */

     detailIntent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, MovieActivity.class);
     detailIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
     detailIntent.putExtra("MainActivityReference",this);
     startActivity(detailIntent);


}

If you guys could point out my mistake I would be gratefull! Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

So I have an Activity that I want to pass trough an intent

That is not possible, sorry.

Even if you could make Activity implement Serializable properly (which is not possible), passing values by Intent extras makes copies . It is pass-by-value, not pass-by-reference. Your MovieActivity would have a useless MainActivityReference extra, pointing to some incomplete, detatched copy of your MainActivity .