Should you pass the String to each intent before it reaches the actual activity in android

Asked May 15 '18 at 09:48

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I have some data in Activity 1 and i want to pass that data to activity 5... can i just call

intent.putExtra("Data", somedata);

in the first activity and fetch that in the 5th activity.... Or should i send and fetch it through all the 5 activities in order to get the data to the last activity?

edited May 21 '18 at 10:04

Zoe

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asked May 15 '18 at 09:48

you need to pass it through all activities – Shubham Jain May 15 '18 at 09:50
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Yep, otherwise you need to use shared preference – Basil Battikhi May 15 '18 at 09:51
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As a comment, there is a bad practice to pass data through 5 activities, because intermediate activities should not known anything about first activity. You could store this data in SharedPreferences or database and pass only an ID through activity, and retrieve it on 5th activity. – Marc Estrada May 15 '18 at 10:00
If your data is not huge, You can declare it static global variable with public access and use it in activity 5. Not a good practice but you can do so. – hasan_shaikh May 15 '18 at 10:00
@hasan_shaikh it is never recommended, it will create memory leaks. – Khemraj Sharma May 15 '18 at 17:39
@Khemraj that's why i mentioned, it is not a good practice. – hasan_shaikh May 16 '18 at 05:08

Should you pass the String to each intent before it reaches the actual activity in android

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