Well if something in a process crashes, yes the entire process goes down. As for the rotation, I don't have a clear enough picture of your app to answer. All I can say is that when you rotate the screen, any running services get onConfigurationChanged() and activities by default get destroyed and re-created when they need to run in a new configuration.
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Nmix <[email protected]> wrote: > > When I rotated the screen on the emulator (^F11) to test an app's > layout I got a surprise. A different app I am working on crashed. > This other app had never been launched since booting the emulator but > it does have a service that starts on boot_completed, and which was > sitting there quietly in the background doing nothing. > > The reason for the crash, from the log, is that it couldn't find the > layout resource for one of the app's launchable activities that does > have a UI. That isn't surprising since I haven't yet provided a > landscape layout for for that UI activity. But I had not launched > it. Then when I went looking for the service component, I found that > it had quit as well. > > Is this normal behavior? Why did the onCreate of the UI activity get > called when it had never been launched? And, does this sort of crash > always take out everything running in the same process, including > services? > > Thanks! > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
