These may be relevant: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5277&q=markww&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2373&q=markww&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars
On Jan 10, 9:34 pm, scastria <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a start activity page for my game (which is the root activity > for my app) that just lists "Play", "Help", and "About" TextViews on > the screen. Each TextView has a click listener which start the > appropriate Activity for each. The GameActivity (started with > explicit intent from clicking "Play") has onSaveInstanceState > implemented to save state of the game. Its onCreate checks for non- > null Bundle to restore this state. My problem is this: > > 1. Turn on Phone/Emulator > 2. start my game with icon in launcher > 3. Start page is displayed > 4. click "Play" to start my GameActivity > 5. play game for a few seconds > 6. click home > 7. state is saved (proven with debugger calling onSaveInstanceState) > 8. start my game with the icon in launcher > 9. start page is displayed > > I was under the impression that by clicking the app icon from the > launcher that my existing task activity stack would be restored with > my GameActivity being on top and its onCreate being called for me to > restore the state I saved. Instead I am getting a brand new instance > of my start page. Also, if I long press home and choose my running > game icon, then my game comes back exactly as I left it. However, > this apparently is NOT using my onCreate restore state logic as > onCreate is never called. > > All of the documentation seems to say that the entire stack of > activities will be restored when clicking the application icon from > the launcher, but I just get a fresh instance. What might I be doing > wrong?
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