I have read that article before, it is very informative, but I do not see anything about retaining the scroll position. I know it has something to do with the saved instance state, but I do not know how to restore this at a certain time? Thanks, Isaac
On May 24, 2:53 am, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > Isaac Waller wrote: > > No, what you are supposed to do, is not return from onCreate until you > > are ready to show your GUI. > > The notion that you should "not return from onCreate until you are ready > to show your GUI" is simply incorrect. > > 1. There is nothing forcing you to construct your UI in onCreate(). > > 2. There is nothing forcing you to have your lists fully populated in > onCreate(). > > 3. There are things forcing you to not put sleep() calls in any UI > thread operation, such as usability and the eventual ANR if your guess > is wrong sometimes and it takes longer than ~5 seconds. > > > the screen flashes 'LOADING' and then shows the > > items. It looks quite ugly. > > Then remove "LOADING". You put that there, not Android. > > > And then there is the losing of scroll position and focus too. > > Then handle rotations differently. > > http://wiki.andmob.org/samplecode > > Look for "Rotational Forces" for a set of five links on ways to handle > rotation events. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 2.0 Available! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
