m not 100% sure but i feel this could help http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#onSaveInstanceState(android.os.Bundle)
but i feel if u can save the state of the objects onSaveInstanceState(android.os.Bundle) and restore them on onRestoreInstanceState(android.os.Bundle) On Sep 24, 10:47 am, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:36 PM, elubin <elubin1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That absolutely sounds like what is happening, but WHY would my app be > > killed and restarted? > > I'm guessing because it's idle long enough and Android feels like killing > it. If you're leaving your app alone over night, likely your phone is going > to sleep, pausing your app. Left in this state long enough, it's not > surprising that it would be killed eventually. > > > You are correct, if it gets restarted on the main window then i am not > > refilling my application data. I only fill it on the login window. Do I > > misunderstand how application data is supposed to work? > > Perhaps. As Dianne usually advises, you should scrap the Application idea > and use a lazy-loading Singleton object to store your global / app-wide / > static data as necessary. > > > what's the point of it if the JVM can kill my app at any time and not > > store the application object? > > Well, I guess the point is to have the notion of an object that represents > your app as a whole. But it's not the system's job to store and restore it's > state - that's your job. > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Frank Weiss <fewe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think the lesson is that an Android application and > > android.app.Application are frequently mistakenly assumed to behave the same > > as an "application" on other operating systems. > > Yes, this is an important point. OP, you must remember that leaving your app > "open" does not mean it will never close as it does on Windows, for example. > Android will kill it and restart it as need be - it only *appears* to have > remained open since it restarts in the last activity you left it in. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago > transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- 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
