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 focused activity and hence does not hit
> onSaveInstanceState(...). The users of this application will be
> expecting it to return to its saved instance state the next time they
> start the activity, unless they use the apps menu to stop the app
> running.
>

No they won't expect this, because that is not how android works.  And there
is certainly not an apps menu menu for them to "stop" apps.

Please don't try to make your application behave in a way you think it
should from some other environment.  It should behave consistently with the
android UI model, wherever appropriate.

-- 
Dianne Hackborn
Android framework engineer
hack...@android.com

Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails.  All such
questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and
answer them.

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