Android serializable problem

Question

I created a class, which has several member variables, all of which are serializable... except one Bitmap! I tried to extend bitmap and implement serializable, not thinking

Answer 1

You can do the serialization by hand by using the following java methods:

private void writeObject(java.io.ObjectOutputStream out)
private void readObject(java.io.ObjectInputStream in)

Serialize the bitmap by using getPixels and when you do the deserialization you can use createBitmap to recreate it from scratch.

You can read about on how to use readObject and writeObject here: http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/Serializable.html