Please don't do this, as the Parcelable documentation says, this is not intended for persisting but only for IPC. Future updates of the platform can change the format (in fact I believe Donut will change Bundle's parcelable format) and break your saved state.
You can use SharedPreferences for this, or you can use a raw file and the standard Java APIs to read and write it in whatever format you want. On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote: > > Robert Green wrote: > > I'm well aware of onSaveInstanceState(Bundle b) and the corresponding > > onCreate and onRestore... > > > > What I want to do is persist the bundle somewhere simple where I'll > > only ever have one at a time. The functionality is to be able to > > resume a game from its previously stored state - not to be confused > > with restoring the activity during its lifecycle. I want to restore > > it AFTER it's been destroyed (think of turning the phone on and having > > a button on the game that says, "resume last game". My thoughts are > > that if I can just persist the bundle that I normally use for the > > instance state, then I should be able to reload it later upon user > > request. > > > > I don't want to use a provider because they seem way too over the top > > for what I'm doing. Anyone? > > > > The best functionality would be > > > > saveBundle(Bundle b) > > > > -game menu activity- > > isThereASavedBundle()? > > Bundle b = loadBundle(); > > startGameActivityWithResumeFlagOn(); > > Bundle implements Parcelable, so you should be able to use > writeToParcel()/readFromParcel() to get the Bundle into a Parcel, then > use Parcel's marshall() and unmarshall() to get a byte[] you can persist > to a file. > > Somewhat tedious, but it should work. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Looking for Android opportunities? http://wiki.andmob.org/hado > > > > -- 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, and so won't reply to such e-mails. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
