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Joan Carles
Joan Carles

Reputation: 303

Serialize arraylist of Bitmaps

I have a CITEM class:

public class CITEM {
    public Bitmap BMP;
    public String DESC;
}

In another class I have an array defined as follows:

ArrayList<CITEM> array;

I need to store the array in a table in a database and had thought of serializing the array. I have two options:

1) A single record with the serialized array.

2) N-Records serializing CITEM objects.

Serializing a Bitmap not a problem but not how to serialize the array. What is the best option? And how I can do?

Thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 180

Answers (2)

Blackbelt
Blackbelt

Reputation: 157467

you can not serialize your CITEM object since Bitmap does not implements Serializable. You can encode your bitmap Base64 and serialize the Base64 strings

Upvotes: 1

Jeff Lee
Jeff Lee

Reputation: 781

I use to Serialize the ArrayList Directly. The ArrayList is a Serializable object btw. All the data kept after you Serialize it or user ObjectOutputStream to save it in file system. etc, If Bitmap is not a problem.

You can check more information here ArrayList

hope that I can help you.

Upvotes: 0

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