You can use Activity.isFinishing().

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Mark Wyszomierski <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Is there a reliable way to tell if an Activity is being destroyed due
> to rotation, or if it's really being removed from display?
>
> My activity has to do some lengthy background process. If the user is
> simply rotating the phone, I don't want to cancel the bg process. If
> the user is going to a new activity, or hitting the back button, then
> I'd really like to terminate the bg process.
>
> I'm not sure how to discern between these two situations other than
> listening for the back key being pressed, but I'm not sure if this is
> reliable at all. Is this the only way a user can terminate the current
> Activity?
>
> Thanks
> >
>


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