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 in onSaveInstanceState() so it can be displayed once again when focus returns. Though if the back button is used, it does not get called ( is this correct? ). The user must never be able to stop activity running without selecting "stop" from the activity menu, which in turn stops the service and calls finish(). Liam On Sep 2, 5:53 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > 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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
