I'm obviously missing something, as I thought the Thread would be the only thing holding onto the old Activity (as it is now). When the Thread dies, the old activity would be garbage collected (as it does now). All forwarding would be done via the Activity class.
I tried to extend Activity to write it myself, however, methods like showDialog and dismissDialog are marked as final, and I couldn't pass the old Activity into the Bundle on the onSaveInstanceState as Bundle doesn't allow attaching of objects. On Aug 31, 1:44 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > And that still means it needs to keep the old activity around so the thread > can use it. > > > > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 9:47 PM, CraigsRace <craig...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > It would only be a forward reference (from the destroyed activity to > > the new activity), not a back reference. > > > On Aug 30, 2:34 pm, Romain Guy <romain...@google.com> wrote: > > > > However, couldn't the Android framework just forward any requests from > > > > a destroyed activity, to the newly created Activity, saving us > > > > developers the pain of handling it ourselves? > > > > To do this, the framework would have to keep around references to all > > > previous Activities pretty much forever. Which would be a large waste > > > of resources. > > > > -- > > > Romain Guy > > > Android framework engineer > > > romain...@android.com > > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time > > > to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on > > > public forums, where I and others can see and answer them > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
