>>>>> "MM" == Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> writes:
MM> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Jake Colman <col...@ppllc.com> wrote: >> Am I making a fundamental mistake in how this is supposed to be done? MM> No, that all seems OK. >> You've already told me that when the application is recreated it >> gets a new context. If so, how are preferences persisted across >> recreations of my application if the "key" to those preferences >> are the context? MM> The "key" to those preferences is the package name. An easy way MM> to get the package name is by calling getPackageName() on a MM> Context. The "key" to those preferences is not the Context MM> itself. MM> In this case, the "key" is used as the basis of a filename, for MM> the XML file which contains the persisted SharedPreferences. Ok. That makes sense but brings it all back full circle. It's clear that Application.onCreate is being called multiple times for my app. It also seems that my preferences are being reset as a result of that happening. But from everything that I am reading in this discussion it would seem that should not be the case. I guess I have to add some debugging code and have my user side-load it to see if I can get some insight into the problem. Incidentally, this is a fairly straighforward application with nothing fancy. It uses an AppWidget class, one Activity, a Preference Activity and a Service to do some work on behalf of the widget. So any whatever is causing my problem it's not because I am being too fancy. -- Jake Colman -- Android Tinkerer -- 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