I just stick android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation" in my manifest. I generally do that by default these days. Haven't come across any problems so far!
Does that explain why it works? On May 9, 1:13 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > westmeadboy wrote: > > I remember using statics before and then (through analytics) finding > > that those statics were sometimes null unexpectedly. I came to the > > conclusion that this was something to do with the system killing > > processes and automatically restarting them (and whatever activity) > > passing the same intent data etc. So the activity attempts to start as > > before but doesn't have the static set as in the normal scenario. This > > is all very hazy but that's my impression... > > That won't happen on an orientation change, but could easily happen if > the user is playing with your app and then presses HOME and abandons it > for a while. Or if they take a phone call and abandon it for a while. Or > if they get involved in a serious round of TXTing and abandon it for a > while. > > > During onCreate() I copy the static reference to an instance variable > > and immediately null the static reference. If the static reference is > > initially null then I just disable a couple of buttons that rely on > > that cursor being non-null. > > Ah, so you're just using it on a transient basis. Interesting. Not sure > how you're handling rotation, then, in that 2nd activity -- you can't > let it get destroyed and recreated, because then your static is null'd out. > > Statics in Android are one of those "necessary evil" sorts of things. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, One Low Price! > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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
