But please read what I wrote, do NOT put this in to Intents or usually any Bundle object. This is primarily for communication with services.
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Inderjeet Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, this is perfect for our use-case! > > Just to confirm: if you put an IBinder object in a bundle and it is > shared across processes, any changes to the object state through proxy > will be communicated back to the process owning the object. Is that > correct? > > I dont know of another operating environment that is able to allow > mutually untrusting apps to share live objects with each other. Yes, I > know about Unix/Windows shared memory constructs but I was thinking > more like Java, Javascript, etc. I am pleasantly surprised. > > Thanks > Inder > > > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> > wrote: > > No, this is wrong. > > > > - If you are putting normal objects (primitives, Parcelable, > Serializable) > > into the Bundle, they will be copied and re-instantiated as the Intent > > travels into the system process and back to your app. > > > > - If you put IBinder objects in, a reference to the object will be > > transfered, and you will receive back either the original object (if in > the > > same process) or a proxy object (if in another process). > > > > And please: DO NOT PUT IBINDER OBJECTS IN TO INTENTS. In most places > > hopefully the framework prevents this. If you do, your app will break > > occasionally, when its process gets killed and the activity using the > object > > is re-instantiated. > > > > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
