I know there are a few threads close to this topic, but I haven't seen answers that fully address what I'm looking for here -- I need to save an ArrayList of Location objects that were generated by Google Play Location Services. Location objects are Parcelable but not Serializable. I attempted to save them via the traditional serializable route, which of course failed... see code below.
public static void saveArrayListLocations(Context context, ArrayList<Location> dataArrayList) {
File folder = context.getFilesDir();
File file = new File(folder, FILE_NAME);
try {
file.createNewFile();
FileOutputStream fos = context.openFileOutput(FILE_NAME, Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(fos);
oos.writeObject(dataArrayList);
oos.close();
fos.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException f) {
System.out.println("File not found exception while saving");
} catch (IOException i) {
System.out.println("IO exception while saving");
}
}
An IOException is always thrown.
So, questions: Is there a way to serialize Location objects? Or should I be looking into using their Parcelable feature somehow? I am somewhat new at this, and I was wondering if using a Map or a Bundle to package the data would work somehow?
