[android-developers] Re: Changing a Back button press to Home button press

2009-09-03 Thread Ne0
Dianne, If there is a more appropriate way of doing this please advise. My activity, starts, stops and binds to a service. When the activity is focused, it receives text from the service it is bound to. When ever the user navigates away from the activity all the currently received text is saved

[android-developers] Re: Changing a Back button press to Home button press

2009-09-03 Thread Dianne Hackborn
We've already been having this discussion in another thread. If you want to retain some state in your activity -- even across the user pressing back to finish your activity and then later launching it again -- then just save that state, in whatever way you want, in onPause(). If you want to let

[android-developers] Re: Changing a Back button press to Home button press

2009-09-03 Thread Marco Nelissen
See http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#onSaveInstanceState(android.os.Bundle) for an explanation of why onSaveInstanceState is not called in your use case. You should save your state somewhere else, like in onPause() On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:09 AM,

[android-developers] Re: Changing a Back button press to Home button press

2009-09-02 Thread Ne0
Yes that is what i want to achieve and i know it is acting in a non- standard way. Please correct me if you think i am going about this in the wrong way, but my understanding is that using the back button destroys the focused activity and hence does not hit onSaveInstanceState(...). The users of

[android-developers] Re: Changing a Back button press to Home button press

2009-09-02 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Ne0 liamjamesalf...@googlemail.com wrote: Yes that is what i want to achieve and i know it is acting in a non- standard way. Please correct me if you think i am going about this in the wrong way, but my understanding is that using the back button destroys the

[android-developers] Re: Changing a Back button press to Home button press

2009-09-01 Thread Romain Guy
This won't work. You just cannot do this. On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Ne0liamjamesalf...@googlemail.com wrote: Trying to the do as the title describes with the following code, but it doesn't seem to work. It just does nothing once i have altered the keyCode. Do i have to do something to

[android-developers] Re: Changing a Back button press to Home button press

2009-09-01 Thread Marco Nelissen
Couldn't you just 'eat' the back key, and use startActivity() to launch home when you receive it? That should pretty much give you the effect the effect you're looking for. Of course, then your app is behaving in a nonstandard way, which might confuse users, so you should ask yourself whether