How much data we can transfer through intent in android?

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How much data we can transfer through intent in android.
Here I sending sting as a value. but how much data I can send through intent. Is it change based on Android OS version ?

Intent myintent=new Intent(Info.this, GraphDiag.class).putExtra("101", "string");
startActivity(myintent);

possible duplicate of [Maximum length of Intent putExtra method? (Force close)](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12496700/maximum-length-of-intent-putextra-method-force-close) — kgandroid, Sep 10 '15 at 06:59

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

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The amount of data that you can transfer through intents is approx 1MB

Here is a useful link for you

Issue: Passing large data to second Activity

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answered Sep 10 '15 at 06:52

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 10 '15 at 06:48

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Reading this link on google groups i don't see any limits per se.But it also depicts a very important point on the top few responses that

It has not been documented.

Here's the link... https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5878

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 25 '19 at 16:00

I think we can send approx 100kb because I have did by using two images which are approx 40kb each, and including some text, but my app was crashing because of out of memory exception.

When I used two images with approx 12kb each then it was working fine, but took 1 second to start the second activity. :)

Yes, it also changes based on Android OS version.

How much data we can transfer through intent in android?

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