how to serialize manually a class ?

Question

Hi, I want to serialize my class. I have this code :

public class Video implements Serializable{
public long videoId;
public String title;
public String publisher;
public String language;
public Date lastModified;
public Date published;
public String imageUrl;
public String url;
public Bitmap myVideoScreenshotBm;
//public Drawable myVideoScreenshotDrawable;

public CedemoVideo (long newVideoId) {
    this.videoId=newVideoId;
}

}

As far I have check i'm getting a NotSerializableException because of the Bitmap variable.

I apparently need to implement :

 private void writeObject(java.io.ObjectOutputStream out) throws IOException

private void readObject(java.io.ObjectInputStream in) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException

Anyone know what I should do in these function ?? How should I write my Bitmap variable ?Any code examples ? anyone did it ?

Answer 1

While serializing the bitmap variable, just serialize the url of the bitmap. Deserialization should make use of this url to construct the actual bitmap field.

Answer 2

See here for a code example : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3628016/android-how-to-save-a-bitmap-buggy-code