Thanks a lot. After I posted this I tried doing this and got my answer :). About the saveInstanceState: It says it is only for saving state associated with a current instance of an Activity, for example current navigation or selection info. So can't we store some info (like: some arrays, some text) as this might form my state info. I tried doing I got the arrays null so want to know what all state means as when I wanted to store my arrays I could not so my confusion was as to what all state info mean. Thanks again.
On Jan 26, 12:49 pm, TreKing <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > deviceshttp://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
