Sorry, you just can't re-use a WebView across config changes -- a view is instantiated with a Context it runs in, which is the Activity that created it. You can't change this context later, when you have a new Activity instance.
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Shri <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a WebView in my Activity which I want to reuse across config > changes so that the webpage does not get reloaded after every > orientation change. I can use > Activity#onRetainNonConfigurationInstance/getLastConfigurationInstance > for this. However, I have heard that Fragment#setRetainInstance is > better for this purpose. This does not seem correct if there are other > Views involved which should be recreated after a config change (eg. > TextView which should be recreated after a locale change so that new > string resources can be picked up). I could keep only the WebView in a > Fragment, and all other Views in the Activity, but then either > approach seems good enough. > > Just checking that Activity#onRetainNonConfigurationInstance/ > getLastConfigurationInstance are not considered to be bad practice > going forward. > http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/runtime-changes.html > only mentions these apis anyway, not Fragment#setRetainInstance. > > Thanks > Shri > > -- > 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 > -- 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
