OK, that's a fair point. I've changed my code to use onRetainNonConfigurationInstance now, and this seems to work nicely.
Thanks. On Apr 23, 12:28 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Taf <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > > Yes, I think I'll have to look at using the the way you've suggested. > > It was just that > > onConfigurationChanged seemed like a really nice and simple way of > > achieving what I wanted. Though > > it does say somewhere in the docs that it should be used as a last > > resort. Not sure why? > > It does not force you to reload all of your resources. Hence, you have > to do all that yourself. > > You might think "well, gee, it's portrait <-> landscape, so I just > fiddle with my layout, how tough can that be?". But then, what happens > if the user changes their locale while your app is in memory? They > come back to your app, and either: > > 1. You added locale to your android:configChanges attribute, in which > case you have to have all of the code yourself to reload all of your > visible strings, and not miss any > > 2. You only have rotation-related values in android:configChanges, in > which case your app probably crashes or otherwise has results that you > don't like, because the old activity will be destroyed and a new > activity created > > There are a fair number of configuration changes (see the docs for > android:configChanges). One way or another, you have to handle all of > them. Using android:configChanges, therefore, is best for places where > the pain of manual resource management (and getting right now and as > you change resources in the coming months) is still less than the pain > caused by destroying and recreating an activity. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android 3.0 Programming Books:http://commonsware.com/books -- 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
