Android Question A mad question about objects

[LucaMs]

Is there a way to save object references?

I was thinking, in particular, to a method for saving the references of some views.

 

[LucaMs]

Uhm... really absurd question: references to objects change each time you run an app, I suppose, especially after changes to the source.

I'm afraid I do not have solutions; the problem is the same that I had when I wanted to get the name of the view in a layout

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/lmtranslation.58661/#post-369473

 

[Ed Brown]

Hi @LucaMs

The way I would have approached this would be to serialize the view and save it to a database or file. However, it appears that it is not possible to serialize views.

As an alternative approach it should be possible to save the various properties of a view along with an ID to a file or database. By doing this it would be possible to retrieve a view's details and recreate it.

 

[LucaMs]

Hi @LucaMs

The way I would have approached this would be to serialize the view and save it to a database or file. However, it appears that it is not possible to serialize views.

As an alternative approach it should be possible to save the various properties of a view along with an ID to a file or database. By doing this it would be possible to retrieve a view's details and recreate it.

Thank you for your answer.

Unfortunately, I need an identifier for views added by Designer and I fear I can use tags only.