How to save an intent's data

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I have the following situation: I need to save data from an Intent's putExtra call into another Activity. I am able to display the putExtra data, however I cannot save it. I am using startActivity to start the activity that I need to save the data in. I am attempting to store it by adding the data to an ArrayList, however whenever I change Activities the data is lost. Also it only stores the last value. How can I store the sent data in the second Activity?

What do you mean by _"I cannot save it"_? Can you retrieve that data in your destination activity? — Chopin, May 13 '12 at 01:47
@Chopin Yes I can retrieve the data in the destination activity. However, whenever I switch back to the activity that sent the data, I lose the data. Its as if the receiving application gets re-created every time I switch over to it. — paulot, May 13 '12 at 01:53

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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You can store it in the Application Context as described here:

Static way to get 'Context' on Android?

edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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answered May 13 '12 at 01:51

Abdullah Jibaly

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