Hi Ted, It is nice to know about Application.. to me this seems to be like globol context similar session object in servlets. Let me explore this further.
Regards, Nagendra On Mar 25, 10:48 am, Ted Hopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I read another thread here a few days ago that pointed out that an > Application object can be used as a central place for data shared > between activities. It seems to be working nicely for me. I don't use > it to pass data back from subactivites, but I imagine it would work > just as well. > > However, in M5 the Application process seems to hang around after all > my activities have finished, even if I explicitly set > android:persistent="false" in the manifest. I don't know if this is > just a disadvantage of having an Application class or a bug. But I'd > be concerned if I were keeping large amounts of data there. > > On Mar 24, 5:39 pm, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Mar 24, 2:42 pm, "Dan U." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 1. I could not get the serializable passing ability of a Bundle to > > > work. It has to do with a incorrect classloader error. I think it's > > > the same error that got in the road of serialization in the m3 sdk. It > > > was possible to work around though. > > > We had a really, really stupid mistake in M5. All of the support for > > propagating custom Parcelable and Serializable objects is there in M5, > > but at one place in the system code we print the Intent that is being > > used to start an activity... which prints the extras bundle > > associated with the intent... which causes the bundle to try to > > instantiate its data... which goes boom. > > > This will be fixed in an upcoming SDK. I know it is unfortunate. :( > > > > 2. I've heard serialization is slower than implementing your object as > > > a parcelable. > > > Yes it is. We highly suggest using Parcelable if you can.- Hide quoted > > text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
