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Android Intents and Broadcast Receivers For All Intents and Purposes Parcel All the Things!

justin z
justin z
11,042 Points

Step 2 of "Parcel All the Things"

I get the following error when I run my code.: ./TimeTravelActivity.java:15: error: incompatible types: Parcelable cannot be converted to EnergySource EnergySource source = intent.getParcelableExtra("EXTRA_ENERGY"); ^ For some reason it is not returning a EnergySource object even though as you can see in my code, I passed in the EnergySource variable with my intent. Where did i go wrong?

MainActivity.java
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

  public Button goButton;
  public EditText yearField;

  @Override
  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    goButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.goButton);
    yearField = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.yearField);

    final EnergySource source = new EnergySource();

    goButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
      @Override
      public void onClick(View v) {
        // Add your code in here!
        Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, TimeTravelActivity.class);
        intent.putExtra("EXTRA_YEAR", yearField.getText().toString());
        intent.putExtra("EXTRA_ENERGY",source);
        startActivity(intent);
      }
    });
  }
}
TimeTravelActivity.java
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;

public class TimeTravelActivity extends Activity {

  public String targetYear;

  @Override
  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_time_travel);

    Intent intent = getIntent();
    targetYear = intent.getStringExtra("EXTRA_YEAR");
    EnergySource source = intent.getParcelableExtra("EXTRA_ENERGY");
  }
}

1 Answer

Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points

Hi Justin - You need to cast it to EnergySource .

EnergySource source = (EnergySource) intent.getParcelableExtra("EXTRA_ENERGY");
justin z
justin z
11,042 Points

Thank you Kourosh! I can't believe I missed this!

Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points

It happens to us all :smile:. Happy coding!

I don't understand why the cast is required. In the video, putting the parcelable data into Song worked without a cast. And when I put a cast on it, it says it is redundant.

Can you explain?