What to do on TransactionTooLargeException

Question

I got a TransactionTooLargeException. Not reproducible. In the docs it says

The Binder transaction failed because it was too large.

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Answer 1

For those who bitterly disappointed in search of answer of why the TransactionTooLargeException apears, try to check how much information you save in instance state.

On compile/targetSdkVersion <= 23 we have only internal warning about large size of saved state, but nothing is crashed:

E/ActivityThread: App sent too much data in instance state, so it was ignored
    android.os.TransactionTooLargeException: data parcel size 713856 bytes
    at android.os.BinderProxy.transactNative(Native Method)
    at android.os.BinderProxy.transact(Binder.java:615)
    at android.app.ActivityManagerProxy.activityStopped(ActivityManagerNative.java:3604)
    at android.app.ActivityThread$StopInfo.run(ActivityThread.java:3729)
    at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:751)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6044)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:865)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:755)

But on compile/targetSdkVersion >= 24 we have real RuntimeException crash in this case:

java.lang.RuntimeException: android.os.TransactionTooLargeException: data parcel size 713860 bytes
    at android.app.ActivityThread$StopInfo.run(ActivityThread.java:3737)
    at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:751)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6044)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:865)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:755)
 Caused by: android.os.TransactionTooLargeException: data parcel size 713860 bytes
   at android.os.BinderProxy.transactNative(Native Method)
   at android.os.BinderProxy.transact(Binder.java:615)
   at android.app.ActivityManagerProxy.activityStopped(ActivityManagerNative.java:3604)
   at android.app.ActivityThread$StopInfo.run(ActivityThread.java:3729)
   at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:751) 
   at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95) 
   at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154) 
   at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6044) 
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 
   at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:865) 
   at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:755) 

What to do?

Save data in local database and keep only id's in instance state which you can use to retrieve this data.