Question

PROBLEM

• When a user types into the editText
  (landscape mode, or portrait) and
  rotates the phone the text is lost.

QUESTION

• How can I prevent the loss of the
  text ?

underlying code:

• onCreate() ->
  setContentView(myLayout) -> get
  references to UI widgets with
  findViewById()
• onConfigurationChanged() -> setContentView(myLayout) -> get references to UI widgets with findViewById()

my guess is that the setContentView() within onConfigurationChanged() causes the data loss.
What I believe I need to do is grab the data from the EditText before this happens. But how ?

Answer 1

add

android:configChanges=”orientation”

to your activity in the androidmanifest.xml. This will rotate the orientation but make no changes occur on orientation change.

<activity android:name=".activityname"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:configChanges="orientation">