Passing objects in to Fragments

Question

I\'ve been working with lots of Fragments recently and have been using two distinct methods of passing in objects to the Fragments, but the only difference that

Answer 1

for Collection such as List :

I wanted to share my experience.

you need to implement Parcelable

Just use the putParcelableArrayList method.

ArrayList localities = new ArrayList;
...
Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
bundle.putParcelableArrayList(KEY_LClass_LIST, localities);
fragmentInstance.setArguments(bundle);

return fragmentInstance;

And retrieve it using...

localities = savedInstanceState.getParcelableArrayList(KEY_LCLass_LIST);

So, unless you need the custom ArrayList for some other reason, you can avoid doing any of that extra work and only implement Parcelable for your Locality class.