Thanks... I think I understand the lifecycle. And forgive me for continuing to push the keyboard/rotation issue. I am having trouble understanding the logical reasoning for designing Android where the app has to be re-created just to enter text (due to the lack of a virtual keyboard and subsequent need to rotate a screen to access a physical one). Any complex app where several screens are used to navigate a hierarchy of displays and user input will find it extremely difficult to recreate that workflow of steps after a simple text entry.
It seems there is some technical restriction internal to Android that prevents it from just repainting screens after a rotation... unlike the return from an external activity where the originating activity remains intact. What is the reasoning behind the design for screen rotation forcing an activity recreate while a return from another activity doesn't? On Oct 7, 5:20 pm, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 7, 1:51 pm, Rmac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My testing shows starting an external activity and then returning via > > the back key only calls onResume, not onCreate. The screen > > orientation change calls both onCreate and onResume on the originating > > activity. It seems odd (maybe a design flaw, grin) that starting > > another activity which in essence leaves my app causes less disruption > > to the original activity than a process that rotates the screen while > > I am STILL in my app. > > No, it is behaving exactly as desired, the previous activity does not > need to be re-created unless its process has to be killed while it is > in the background in order to use its memory elsewhere. > > This is a fundamental part of the activity/application lifecycle on > Android:http://code.google.com/android/intro/lifecycle.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
