As Mark said earlier... The main purpose of onSaveInstanceState() is to save the current state of your UI so you can restore it when the activity comes back... That way the rotation appears seamless to the user.
This would mean saving text in EditText objects, or the checked state of a CheckBox or RadioButton, etc... That shouldn't take very long to save... If you are doing other stuff in there that would need to be moved elsewhere. Thanks, Justin Anderson MagouyaWare Developer http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Andrew > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, I agree that this probably is freezing UI. But there's a problem > here: > > this cannot be run on a spawned thread as OS may kill the process right > > after this call returns, thus, again, killing the saving thread in the > > middle! > > First, it is rather unlikely that the OS will "kill the process right > after this call returns". > > Second, if you are trying to do anything that takes a while in > onSaveInstanceState(), you're doing it wrong. You should be triggering > that work in other places (e.g., onPause(), on an explicit action bar > item click), and using a background thread in those places as well. > For example, onSaveInstanceState() has nothing to do with a persistent > data model (e.g., database). > > Third, as you are discovering, Android may terminate your work > *anyway* if you are taking a long time on the main application thread. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 3.8 Available! > > -- > 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 > -- 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
