Question

I’m using an Intent Filter in my activity to retrive an url clicked on by the user.

In my activity onCreate method I have the following code

    Intent intent = getIntent();
    if (Intent.ACTION_VIEW.equals(intent.getAction())) {
        url = intent.getDataString();
        showDialog(DIALOG_ID);          
    }

It works great except when I rotate my phone. Even if tha dialog was closed prior to the rotation, it reopen every time I change the phone orientation.
I can I avoir that.

For your information I don’t want to lock the orientation

Answer 1

This is a pretty simple fix. In you manifest file, locate activity and add this:

android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"

This will prevent your logic in onCreate to fire again (or so I believe)

Quoted from here:

In some special cases, you may want to bypass restarting of your
activity based on one or more types of configuration changes. This is
done with the android:configChanges attribute in its manifest. For any
types of configuration changes you say that you handle there, you will
receive a call to your current activity’s
onConfigurationChanged(Configuration) method instead of being
restarted. If a configuration change involves any that you do not
handle, however, the activity will still be restarted and
onConfigurationChanged(Configuration) will not be called.