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I am running into a weird problem . I have a class A which implements Parcelable interface in kotlin.

I am passing the array of class A from one activity to another no issues here.

 var arrayOfA:Array<A> // just to tell the type assume the array is initialised with the value
 intent.putExtra("array", arrayOfA)
But while receiving it in another activity , I am not able to assign it to variable of type Array it is asking me to assign it to Array when A is on type parcelable why I am not able to assign it the variable. 
in second Activity 
var arrayOfA:Array<A>?=null
arrayA=intent.get("array") as Array<A> // Problem here. Class cast exception
I am not able to understand why. Can some one help me here. I don't want to change the type of variable to Array as it as many inter depedencies.(The class here is just a demonstration)
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class A(val a:String?,val b:String?):Parcelable {
    constructor(parcel: Parcel) : this(
            parcel.readString(),
            parcel.readString()) {
    override fun writeToParcel(parcel: Parcel, flags: Int) {
        parcel.writeString(a)
        parcel.writeString(b)
    override fun describeContents(): Int {
        return 0
    companion object CREATOR : Parcelable.Creator<A> {
        override fun createFromParcel(parcel: Parcel): A {
            return A(parcel)
        override fun newArray(size: Int): Array<A?> {
            return arrayOfNulls(size)
I ran into the same problem. This is how I was able to workaround it:
arrayOfA = intent.getParcelableArrayExtra("array").map { it as A }.toTypedArray()
For some reason this does not work:
arrayOfA = intent.getParcelableArrayExtra("array") as Array<A>
That unfortunately exhibits a warning 
  
Unchecked cast: Array<(out) Parcelable!>! to Array)
and runtime exception
  
java.lang.ClassCastException: android.os.Parcelable[] cannot be cast
  to com.company.app.A[]
Bundle.getParcelableArray (and Intent.getParcelableArrayExtra) return Parcelable[]. You can't cast Parcelable[] as MyClass[]. You can cast an element of Parcelable[] as MyClass.
Use Bundle.getParcelableArrayList (or its Intent counterpart) instead, because it has a generic type.
var values: List<MyClass> = listOf(...)
intent.putParcelableArrayListExtra("key", values.asArrayList())
values = intent.getParcelableArrayListExtra("key")!!
fun <E> List<E>.asArrayList(): ArrayList<E> = this as? ArrayList<E> ?: ArrayList(this)
You need to use getParcelableArrayExtra to retrieve Parcelable objects as in
arrayA = intent.getParcelableArrayExtra("array") as Array<A?>
Make class A as Nullable all over, because you can't cast Nullable to Non Nullable in Kotlin
creator should be like below
companion object CREATOR : Parcelable.Creator<A?> {
        override fun createFromParcel(parcel: Parcel): A? {
            return A(parcel)
        override fun newArray(size: Int): Array<A?> {
            return arrayOfNulls(size)
        
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