Comments on: Android Basics – Managing Activity States – Part I

By: zamir

zamir — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:37:19 +0000

i need to call this activity(StateExampleActivity) from another activity say Act2 ,then i use Intent int1=new Intent(this,StateExampleActivity.class);startActivity(int1);
but then nothing is stored ie the string value is not stoed at all.what do i do?

By: shaobin0604

shaobin0604 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:29:46 +0000

@Swaroop you can save your persistent state in Activity#onPause() method

By: Jose Ayerdis

Jose Ayerdis — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:32:16 +0000

No necesarilly is ok to save temporal state like this when you want to go out of the activity and everything stay as you let it when you leaved…. plus Provider spend to much of memory to be used on simple state save imaging exiting an application and waiting all the data to be save.. is like comparing serializable a object or Parcelable with android….

By: zeeshan

zeeshan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:46:21 +0000

Hi Swaroop,
For saving information and retrieving next time when you start the application, the best option is to use SQLiteDatabase , also the next option is use files.

Regards,

By: Swaroop

Swaroop — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:04:32 +0000

Awesome info, this tutorial helped me a lot, i have been stuck at how to save the state for 2 hours.
and i have one question,is it possible to save information, hit cancel button and when application is launched again retrive the stored information.