See http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#onSaveInstanceState(android.os.Bundle) for an explanation of why onSaveInstanceState is not called in your use case. You should save your state somewhere else, like in onPause()
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Ne0<liamjamesalf...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
