Question

my android application crashes and shows force close when i tilt the mobile phone. is there any suggestions that i can remove such problem? By the way i am developing a LBS application which uses the google maps (MapView).

I have a splash screen and then shown a ListActivity as below :

<activity android:name=".Splash" android:label="@string/app_name">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

        <activity android:name=".Home" android:label="@string/app_name" android:configChanges="orientation" android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="com.nepways.HOME" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

what is wrong with my declaration, the splash screen loads and list activity is also whown correctly but when i change the orientation the application is closed. Please help me.

Answer 1

When you change your orientation the activity is restarted

1. look at the logcat to see what exception causes your application to FC
2. You can change your manifest to disable activity restarting by customizing configChanges, if you stil have the problem override onConfigurationChanged() to fix what is generating this exception (like initialize something that may cause a nullpointer)