I do; but, does it matter? I don't believe that can affect process life cycle management.
On Monday, July 23, 2012 12:38:53 PM UTC-4, MagouyaWare < [email protected]> wrote: > > Are you saving your data to the provided bundle? If not, you are doing it > wrong... > > Thanks, > Justin Anderson > MagouyaWare Developer > http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware > > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Andrew < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> No; this is a layered system and I don't have access to all the code >> involved anyway. >> >> I understand the purpose of this method is as per spec: >> >>> This method is called before an activity may be killed so that when it >>> comes back some time in the future it can restore its state. >> >> Which is exactly what is required, but this seems to be slightly >> off-topic. >> >> The problem is that process is sometimes killed right in the middle of >> running this method; this is not defined in spec (or it is?). >> I just need a reliable alternative. >> >> >> On Monday, July 23, 2012 12:11:52 PM UTC-4, MagouyaWare < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Anyway, looks like this method should be extended only in cases when >>>> nothing else works. >>>> >>> >>> Umm... no. Doesn't seem like you are understanding the purpose of this >>> method. Out of sheer curiosity, would you mind posting some snippets of >>> your onSaveInstanceState() method? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Justin Anderson >>> MagouyaWare Developer >>> http://sites.google.com/site/**magouyaware<http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Andrew <andrew.maslyuk@** >>> allegrowireless.com <[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>>> In fact - it is called every time our state needs to be saved. >>>> Anyway, looks like this method should be extended only in cases when >>>> nothing else works. >>>> I'll do more tests with onPause and private state storage to see if >>>> there's any difference in OS behaviour. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> On Monday, July 23, 2012 11:38:11 AM UTC-4, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Andrew wrote: >>>>> > I was not trying to save state for orientation change, but for >>>>> general >>>>> > application state preserving while getting into background in case >>>>> OS >>>>> > decided to kill/restore application. >>>>> >>>>> That is not what onSaveInstanceState() is for. Quoting the >>>>> documentation: >>>>> >>>>> > Note that it is important to save persistent data in onPause() >>>>> instead of onSaveInstanceState(Bundle) because the latter is not part of >>>>> the lifecycle callbacks, so will not be called in every situation as >>>>> described in its documentation. >>>>> >>>>> (from http://developer.android.com/**r**eference/android/app/** >>>>> Activity.**html#**ActivityLifecycle<http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#ActivityLifecycle>) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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 android-developers@** >>>> googlegroups.com <[email protected]> >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> android-developers+**[email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/**group/android-developers?hl=en<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 >> > > -- 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
