JP wrote: > Interesting latest blog entry > http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/02/faster-screen-orientation-change.html > about Activity.onRetainNonConfigurationInstance(). I had missed this > in the docs before, but it does not seem very useful for apps that > save application state in either onStop() or onPause(). This is the > case when a regular app exit needs to be covered - a fairly wide > spread use case I would say. > Or do I get this wrong?
I would say that onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() is mostly for the case where you need to hold onto something that cannot be readily stored in a Bundle at rotation-time, such as a live socket connection to a chat server. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 2.0 Published! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
