Android remote method data limit

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android_devrah picture android_devrah · Dec 8, 2011 · Viewed 7.1k times · Source

for my application I need to pass data between my activity and the the service both of which are in different processes. I know that Google recommends to keep the data passed while sending intent to a minimum (not full size bitmaps). Does a similar policy apply when you are communicating with the service over AIDL and want to pass the data via remote method calls?

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android_devrah picture android_devrah · Dec 28, 2011

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/TransactionTooLargeException.html

" During a remote procedure call, the arguments and the return value of the call are transferred as Parcel objects stored in the Binder transaction buffer. If the arguments or the return value are too large to fit in the transaction buffer, then the call will fail and TransactionTooLargeException will be thrown.

The Binder transaction buffer has a limited fixed size, currently 1Mb, which is shared by all transactions in progress for the process. "

So it seems, you should never send any arguments which are more than 1MB in size. Of course you could fail with lesser sized arguments too as explained on android site above.

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