Oh, right, thanks, I didn't think about this. This is very probably the reason for most of the crashes... omg :/
The things I'm passing are parts of a processed / filtered result from a webservice, so I can't get them from a singleton or similar, I guess. Serialization seems to be the way to go. On Thursday, July 12, 2012 9:17:17 PM UTC+2, TreKing wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:06 PM, user123 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> And Activity B is always started just by Activity A > > > That is an incorrect assumption. > > Picture this sequence of events: Activity A starts Activity B, then you > close out the app by pressing Home, then you come back to your app after > some time. In this case, the system will have killed your app (and wiped > your statics) and will start where it last left off, which is Activity B, > bypassing your static initialization and resulting in your null pointers. > > You need some sort of lazy initialization or Singleton pattern to ensure > you always load the data you need if it's not already been loaded. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago > transit tracking app for Android-powered devices > > -- 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
