Since there is no on-screen virtual keyboard built into Android, I am confused about how to plan for text entry. Let's assume there is a screen with a EditText field requiring user input. On the iPhone it works simply by a virtual keyboard popping up when the field has focus. How should an Android app handle this? With the HTC G1 phone I assume the user would have to rotate the phone and open the keyboard to type (cumbersome for minor text entry). Now, does the rotation and screen going into landscape mode mean the app is forced into the onCreate/onResume cycle requiring a complex saving/restoring of app state just to enter information? Or is the orientation flip handled by Android transparently without the app having to do anything... the screen dimension is just changed and redrawn accordingly?
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