Oh, also, when my process is killed while being in the background does coming back from gallery restart the process jumping directly to activity B? It's not in the documentation, that's why I need to ask here.
Thanks. On Sep 30, 3:52 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes your process can be killed at any time when it is in the background (and > onTerminate is NOT called). > > > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:47 PM, gnugu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > When I start my application I prompt the user for the password and use > > it to instantiate my data adapter object that I will need throughout > > the application. So I store it in Application object. > > > My activity A prompts user for pwd, instantiates data adapter, sticks > > it to Application object and later starts activity B which in turn > > starts the built int gallery activity. When fooling around with > > gallery and capturing pictures for some time coming back to activity B > > I discover that Application.myDataAdapter is null. > > > I found out that during me playing with camera the > > Application.onTerminate() method was called. > > > So it seems like Android killed my process and when B was supposed to > > become visible it started a process again jumping directly to activity > > B bypassing A? > > > Is that how it works? Should I then never assume that > > Application.myField will survive? and init it not only when A is > > started but whenever I discover it is null? > > > Thanks. > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
