On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:29 PM, katti <[email protected]> wrote: > What does state of an application include? > That's really up to you to decide, but basically if the user switches orientation they should be able to continue doing whatever they were doing without having to start some process over.
> Does it include only > cursor position,...etc or does it include some text the user has got > like in my example when the game is over I display Some xyz is the > winner? > That's up to you and whether it makes sense for your application. > My problem is I have 4 buttons when user clicks on any button > certain info is shown on the button. Now when the orientation changes > the info is lost. > That would be a good place to save and restore the state. > To save the info I have used preferences( so I have > converted the info into string and stores). Now I am not able to > understand if this (saving of data) shoudl be done in onPause/onResume > or in onSaveInstanceState/onRestoreInstanceState. > Is this data that should persist across application restarts? If so, save in pause / resume as part of preferences or to a db or file. If this is data that should just stay consistent across orientation change, use onSaveInstanceState / onRestoreInstanceState. > As I was looking for this info I found somebody say that "the > savedInstanceState is only for saving state associated with a current > instance of an Activity, for example current navigation or selection > info" so a little confusion. > Why is that confusing? What don't you understand about that statement. > Thanks in advance > You're welcome in advance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TreKing - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
