Question

Here is my code of writing to a parcel

public void writeToParcel(Parcel dest, int flags) {
        dest.writeString(poiDescription);
        dest.writeString(latitude);
        dest.writeString(longitude);
        dest.writeString(placeName);
        dest.writeString(plistPath);
        dest.writeString(poiDirName);
            if (null != isMascotPresent)
                dest.writeString(isMascotPresent);
            if (null != startMascottTime)
                dest.writeInt(startMascottTime);
            if (null != mascottDuration)
                dest.writeInt(mascottDuration);
}

public PointOfInterest(Parcel source) { 
        poiDescription = source.readString();
        latitude = source.readString();
        longitude = source.readString();
        placeName = source.readString();
        plistPath = source.readString();
        poiDirName = source.readString();
        audioLinkDownload = source.readString();
        audioLinkStream = source.readString();
        poiName = source.readString();
        poiIndex = source.readInt();
        poiPaused = source.readString();
        source.readList(imageList, null);
        source.readList(durationList, null);
        if (null != isMascotPresent)
            isMascotPresent = source.readString();
        if (null != startMascottTime)
               startMascottTime=source.readInt();
        if (null != mascottDuration)
                  mascottDuration=source.readInt();
}


This is how I am reading the values
listOfPOI = getIntent().getParcelableArrayListExtra("poi");

This codw works fine without the mascot above.

But when I add those 3 lines about mascot, my application is crashing. I am breaking my head onthis, I am not getting why is this happening, can anyone please let me know the issue?

I am getting the run time exception and problem saying there is unmarshalling error for the parcelable

This is the exception I am getting

 ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
 ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity       ComponentInfo{com.Invenger/com.Invenger.Player.Audio}: java.lang.RuntimeException: Parcel android.os.Parcel@40570848: Unmarshalling unknown type code 7536748 at offset 1064
 ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1647)
 ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1663)
 ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117)
 ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:931)
 ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
 ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
 ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
 ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
 ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
 ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
 ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
 ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061): Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Parcel android.os.Parcel@40570848: Unmarshalling unknown type code 7536748 at offset 1064
 ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at android.os.Parcel.readValue(Parcel.java:1913)
 ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at android.os.Parcel.readListInternal(Parcel.java:2092)
 ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at android.os.Parcel.readArrayList(Parcel.java:1536)
 ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at android.os.Parcel.readValue(Parcel.java:1867)
ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at android.os.Parcel.readMapInternal(Parcel.java:2083)
ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at android.os.Bundle.unparcel(Bundle.java:208)
ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at   android.os.Bundle.getParcelableArrayList(Bundle.java:1144)
 ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at android.content.Intent.getParcelableArrayListExtra(Intent.java:3448)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at com.Invenger.Player.Audio.onCreate(Audio.java:162)
    ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
   ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1611)
   ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2061):     ... 11 more

Answer 1

I fixed the problem somehow. I made it as static instead of making it parcelable.Ihis may not be the standard way, of making it static. But I feel that there is a limit on the size of parcel. If I add some 15 or more variable it is not working. So it is working for me now.

Any better answer will be accepted