Question

I wanted to stop my activity from refreshing every time the orientation changes. I achieved this by implementing.

@Override public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig)
{
super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);

// Checks the orientation of the screen
if (newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE) {
    Toast.makeText(this, "landscape", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
} else if (newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT){
    Toast.makeText(this, "portrait", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
} }

However when I remove the IF code to display the Toast, it stops working. Screen starts refreshing on the device. This works fine on emulator.

Has anyone faced this kind of issue ?

Answer 1

I finally solved this by using

protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {

webView.saveState(outState);

}

http://roman-dotnet.blogspot.com/2011/05/android-webview-orientation-changes.html