Expert Android

Chapter    14

Enhancing Parse with Parcelables

In Chapter 13 we documented the basic features of Parse. We showed you how to create an account with Parse and how to use that account to sign up users and store objects in the cloud on behalf of those users. We also showed you the basic mechanism to query Parse objects.

In this chapter we will cover two more topics related to Parse. First is the need to pass Parse objects as parcelables through intent extras. The second is the ability to query for Parse objects based on their relationship to other Parse objects.

Let’s talk about the first topic in a bit more detail. If you recall the dictionary-like application we introduced to explain Parse, there were two types of objects that are specific to ...