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Android onPause() and device tilt

I am trying to end all of my android activities by called finish() under the onPause method. Now this was working fine until I noticed that the activity finished when I tilted the device (Galaxy tab). So I am assuming that the device pauses the activity and redraws it when tilted horizontally or vertically. This threw a major money wrench into my plan. So the question is, how do you finsih the activity on pause, but not for a system pause like tilting the device. Thanks guys.

Solution

  • Add android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation" to your activity in manifest file. This will avoid re-creation of activity on orientation of the device changed. Overide onConfigurationChanged in your activity to handle orientation change manually if any changes need to be done.

    <activity android:name=".ui.MyActivity" android:label="@string/home"
android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation">


@Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
    handleViewlayouts();
    super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
}