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Android Android Lists and Adapters (2015) Using Parcelable Data Writing Parcelable Data

We have a simple VideoGame class that we need to make Parcelable. We will start by writing the da

i need yo help guyz

VideoGame.java
public class VideoGame implements Parcelable {

    public String mTitle = "";
    public int mYear = 0;

    public VideoGame() {
        // intentionally blank
    }

    // getters and setters omitted for brevity!

    @Override
    public int describeContents() {
        return 0;
    }

    @Override
    public void writeToParcel(Parcel dest, int flags) {
        // Task 1 code here!   
    }
}

3 Answers

chris boich
chris boich
7,846 Points

You have to set the "dest" parameter within writeToParcel. First you type "dest" than the proper write statement for the data type, if its a String use dest.writeString(variable name). For example:

                                        dest.writeDouble(mTemperature);

Hi im having an error i dont where im doing it wrong

thanks /////////./VideoGame.java:20: error: cannot find symbol dest.writeDouble(mTemperature); ^ symbol: variable mTemperature location: class VideoGame 1 error

Hi im having an error i dont where im doing it wrong

thanks /////////./VideoGame.java:20: error: cannot find symbol dest.writeDouble(mTemperature); ^ symbol: variable mTemperature location: class VideoGame 1 error