I do this, without any issues at all. How are you getting your Application instance from your activities? not getApplicationContext() I hope...
Have you examined the state from the debugger? There may be something you're missing about the state of things. On Apr 19, 11:41 pm, patbenatar <patbena...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all- > > I am using an Application object to store app-wide instance data--data > that I need to remain in existence for the entire lifetime of the app, > so the Application class seems like the proper place to put it. I have > just finished reading this > threadhttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... > that goes into pretty good detail and receives confirmation from > Googler hackbod as to how the Application class performs--and from > that info it seems this strange behavior I am receiving should not be > happening... > > Basically, every once in a while when I resume my app in any of its > Activities (it is still running in memory so onCreate is not called) I > get NullPointerExceptions because instance variables in my Application > class are returning null when I request them from my Activity (via a > getter method in my custom Application class). It seems as if > sometimes Android saves the states of my Activities but deletes all my > instance variable data... This can't be an Android problem--there must > be something wrong with my code. > > Has anyone else ever ran into an issue of this kind? Any ideas as to > what may be causing this? I'm not going to post my code here as that > won't help anyone, but hopefully someone can point me in some helpful > directions. > > Thanks so much, > Nick > > -- > 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 > athttp://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 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
