Good point, use you need the IBinder as well. And yes it could be easier.
And thus Fragment retaining was born. :) On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Doing this with an Activity isn't *too* hard: > > Well, you also have to pass the IBinder object, since you can't get > that any other way. And, in the OP's case, you have to pass the > AsyncTask too, so it can be attached to the new activity instance. And > if you supplied some sort of listener interface to the service for > callbacks, you have to pass that as well, all via > onRetainNonConfigurationInstance(). > > None of these are intrinsically difficult, but trying to explain it to > newcomers to Android (e.g., students in a course) is not especially > pleasant. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android 3.1 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 > -- 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

