How to use onSavedInstanceState with widgets?

Question

I'm learning about screen rotation for an App, I came across this example and I tried it.

My issue is that when I try this with a Button widget, it's text is still blank. When the button is clicked a date picker dialog appears to pick a date. But if the screen is rotated after the selection is made, the previously selected date is lost.

This is my code:

startDate.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View view) {
        setDate(startDate);
    }
});

public void setDate(final Button B)
{
    final Calendar calender = Calendar.getInstance();
    day = calender.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
    month = calender.get(Calendar.MONTH);
    year = calender.get(Calendar.YEAR);

    DatePickerDialog pickDate = new DatePickerDialog(add_event.this, new DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener() {
        @Override
        public void onDateSet(DatePicker datePicker, int i, int i1, int i2) {
            calender.set(i,i1,i2);
            SimpleDateFormat dateFormat1 = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
            String dateString = dateFormat1.format(calender.getTime());
            B.setText(dateString);
        }
    },year,month,day);
    pickDate.show();
}

@Override
public void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState, PersistableBundle outPersistentState) {
    super.onSaveInstanceState(outState, outPersistentState);
    outState.putString("startDate", startDate.getText().toString());
}

@Override
protected void onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onRestoreInstanceState(savedInstanceState);
    startDate.setText(savedInstanceState.getString("startDate"));
}

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Answer 1

Try using the version of onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) with just one argument. The other is for when you have an attribute set in the manifest for the activity to persist across reboots.