How to put a List in intent

Question

I have a List in one of my activities and need to pass it to the next activity.

private List selectedData;  

I tried putting

Answer 1

Everyone says that you can use Serializable, but none mentioned that you can just cast the value to Serializable instead of list.

intent.putExtra("selectedData", (Serializable) selectedData);

Core's lists implementations already implement Serializable, so you're not bound to a specific implementation of list, but remember that you still can catch ClassCastException.