Question

I’m allowing the user to work in both landscape & portrait modes but when I switch between these two modes it just brings the activity to its starting point.

For Example; I enter all the specifications for which I want to view the data in some activity but when I switch the mode from landscape to portrait or portrait to landscape it just brings the activity to its starting point & I’ve to enter all the specifications again to view my data.

Is there any solution to it or will android always re-create the activity on switching between two modes?

Thanks. 🙂

Answer 1

This is the expected behavior by default. It is reasonably easy to handle this situation. Basically you save your Activity state (and data), then repopulate your Activity when the screen is rotated (and the Activity is recreated).

Here is a good SO with the solution:

Handle screen rotation without losing data – Android

also worthwhile to read the docs on this subject (and understand the Activity lifecycle in Android):
http://developer.android.com/training/basics/activity-lifecycle/index.html