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.
> >
>

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