Android: what happens if I add serialVersionUID to old serializable objects?
What happens if you take an old serializable object that never had serialVersionUID explicitly specified, and add serialVersionUID to that object? It seems to me that the next time the app was updated by endusers it would try to deserialize data from disc, find out that the serialVersionUID didn't match, overwrite the data with new data from the server/db/whatever and after that you're fine. Am I correct in this assumption? Are there further issues I should be wary of in doing this? private class X implements serializable {... private static final long serialVersionUID = 0L; If you give it the