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Implement Parcelable to Bundle your POJOs

Every Android Developer is familiar with passing data via a  Bundle or Intent.

In doing so, you would have wanted to pass your entire POJO (Plain Old Java Object) class,or List<Bean>. But Intent or Bundle don’t allow that right off the bat. The key lies in your Beans implementing Parcelable.

public class YourModel implements Parcelable {

    // properties
    String name, url;

    public YourModel() { }

     // Getter Setters here


    // Parcelable methods
    protected YourModel(Parcel in) {
        name = in.readString();
        url = in.readString();
        // other properties
    }

    public static final Creator<YourModel> CREATOR = new Creator<YourModel>() {
        @Override
        public YourModel createFromParcel(Parcel in) {
            return new YourModel(in);
        }

        @Override
        public YourModel[] newArray(int size) {
            return new YourModel[size];
        }
    };

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

    @Override
    public void writeToParcel(Parcel dest, int flags) {
        dest.writeString(name);
        dest.writeString(url);
        // other properties
    }
}

After that, you simply pass your model class data like this:

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 Passing via Intent

intent.putParcelableArrayListExtra("listofmodels", (ArrayList<? extends Parcelable>) yourModels);

List of YourModel

intent.putExtra("singlemodel", (Parcelable) yourModel);

Single YourModel object

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 Passing YourModel via a Bundle

bundle.putParcelableArrayList("listofmodels", (ArrayList<? extends Parcelable>) yourModels);

List of YourModel

bundle.putParcelable("singlemodel", yourModel);

Single YourModel object

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PRO-TIP:
You can alternatively implement Serializable to achieve a similar result!

USEFUL RESOURCES:

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