[android-developers] Re: Can an Activity pause() rather than finish()?

2009-12-01 Thread DulcetTone
Dianne, your answers are often just the spur I need. I already had the data in such a place (a static list), and was under the misapprehension that when a root activity of an app went away, the app's entire process was cleaned up. This will work fine for me, but I will now want to spend some time

[android-developers] Re: Can an Activity pause() rather than finish()?

2009-11-30 Thread justinh
If you haven't already read it you should see http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#actlife Your activity will always be "paused" when it isn't in view. Also note in the last paragraph on that page: "Because a process running a service is ranked higher than one with backgrou