Question

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
       package="com.androidgames"
       android:versionCode="1"
       android:versionName="1.0">
     <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="3" />

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

         //New Activity        
         <activty android:label="Life Cycle Test"
                  android:name=".LifeCycleTest"
                  android.configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation" />

     </application>
 </manifest>

Answer 1

That looks good, but consider moving the label to the strings resource file 🙂

In this case your activity should match a LifeCycleTest class in the root of your package (com.androidgames).