Hello, I am just getting into Android development and I have a question about how to save form data when a user leaves an activity.
I am coming to this from Blackberry development, so I will use that as my example for my question. On the blackberry when the user tries to leave the screen if any fields on the screen have changed then the user will be prompted to save/discard/cancel. The developer overrides the correct methods and saves the data. >From what I can tell, this doesn't happen in the Android world. It seems like a bad idea to prompt the user in the onStop or onPause methods of the activity because these can be called if you app is being shut down for memory reasons (or that is what I gather from the API docs). So what do I do? Only save the data when the user specifically presses a save button? Auto save? If I auto save or save every time the activity is closed then I have to worry about bad data and the user may not want to save. Just wondering what the accepted process is. Thanks. -- 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
