From the javadoc: The serialization runtime associates with each serializable class a version number, called a serialVersionUID, which is used during deserialization to verify that the sender and receiver of a serialized object have loaded classes for that object that are compatible with respect to serialization. If the receiver has loaded a class for the … Read more
In Android we cannot just pass objects to activities. To do this the objects must either implement Serializable or Parcelable interface. Serializable Serializable is a standard Java interface. You can just implement Serializable interface and add override methods. The problem with this approach is that reflection is used and it is a slow process. This method creates a lot of temporary objects … Read more
A JavaBean is just a standard All properties are private (use getters/setters) A public no-argument constructor Implements Serializable. That’s it. It’s just a convention. Lots of libraries depend on it though. With respect to Serializable, from the API documentation: Serializability of a class is enabled by the class implementing the java.io.Serializable interface. Classes that do not implement this interface will not … Read more