As already mentioned earlier, you could also use Intents which are very lightweight. You are able to attach also a data record to your intent using the method putextra().
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html -- Roman Baumgaertner Sr. SW Engineer-OSDC ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the author solely in their individual capacity, and do not necessarily represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc. On Aug 4, 6:31 am, Per Sandström <[email protected]> wrote: > but how do I create and pass this global object? I cant do it like I > do in java or other programming languages where . AIDL is an > alternative, but it still seems overkill for a small app. > > regards > Per Sandström > > On Jul 22, 10:50 pm, niko20 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Jul 22, 1:19 pm, Roman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Android supports multiple IPC mechanisms. > > > > You can use the Intent mechanism as well as the AIDL mechanism for > > > doing this. The AIDL approach is more complex but offers you also more > > > flexibility to pass objects. > > > > Find information about this topic on > > > >http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/aidl.html > > > > -- > > > Roman Baumgaertner > > > Sr. SW Engineer-OSDC > > > ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together > > > The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the > > > author solely in their individual capacity, and do not necessarily > > > represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc. > > > > On Jul 22, 6:49 am, PerSandström<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > So far I have been using SharedPreferences to share data between > > > > activities. But I would very much like to find a better way. I would > > > > simply like both Activity1 and Activity2 to share Object1. Activity1 > > > > will create Object1 and then start Activity2. What is the smartest way > > > > to give Activity2 a pointer to Object1? > > > > > To summarize: Activities don't have constructors! How do I send data > > > > to them from their parent activity??? > > > > > Regards, > > > > PerSandström > > > Hi, > > > If both activities are in the same application, then just use a global > > object and pass that around (singleton or such). Not too tough. > > > -niko > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
