The size limit is: keep it as small as possible. Definitely don't put a bitmap in there unless it is no larger than an icon (32x32 or whatever).
Regardless of the size limit, having a lot of data in there is going to have a pretty big performance impact, since it needs to first go to the activity manager process, which holds on to it the -entire- time the user can return to the new activity (so that it can be re-created with the same intent), and then copied in to the process of the new activity (which may or may not be your own). Small is good! On Oct 13, 9:02 am, "Jake Maui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a site that discusses the pass by value thing ... > http://code.google.com/android/reference/aidl.html#parcelable > > I don't know what the upper limit is but when I was passing bitmaps in a > bundle, > I could pass a ~250K bitmap. It was a tremendous performance hit though. > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Peli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also, intent extras could be passed between different applications, > > living in separate processes, in which case there is no way to > > transfer them by reference. > > > But I'd be also interested in the question if there exists a hard > > limit on intent extras size. > > > Peli > >www.openintents.org > > > On Oct 13, 1:46 pm, "Jake Maui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I believe I read somewhere that it's passed by value. This makes sense > > > because I tried to pass a bitmap and it was extremely slow and there > > seemed > > > to be a size limit beyond which, it would not work. If I come across the > > > site that discussed that it was by value, I'll post it. > > > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:44 AM, Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > Anyone knows the way that Intent's extra transfer between different > > > > activities?I mean the extra is transfered by value or by > > > > reference.And is there a limit for the extra size?Thank you very > > > > much. > > > > > Best Regards --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
