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Android Android Activity Lifecycle Introducing SharedPreferences Introduction to SharedPreferences

Posted by ABHISHEK RAI
ABHISHEK RAI
4,865 Points

change of state during orientation

why editText retained it's value during screen rotation?Which is contradictory to what we saw in fun facts project.

3 Answers

Ruan Lopes de Souza
Ruan Lopes de Souza
4,854 Points
Ruan Lopes de Souza
Ruan Lopes de Souza
4,854 Points

Actually on the FunFacts we used TextViews instead of EditTexts.

TextViews values won't be saved automatically different than EditText because on EditText there is a flag called "freezeText' that is set to "true" by default, but you can make the TexView do the same by setting the "freezeText" flag to true via xml android:freezesText="true" or TextView#setFreezesText(true) on the widget. Otherwise you will have to make it manually as it was done on the FunFacts app.

vipin tomar
vipin tomar
280 Points

I create a log statement to see what's the value of freezeText attribute in EditText by default and I get a false Log.d("TAG", mEditText.getFreezesText() + "");

vipin tomar
vipin tomar
280 Points

For correct information see https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#attr_android:saveEnabled

Joe Brown
Joe Brown
21,465 Points
Joe Brown
Joe Brown
21,465 Points

If I remember right, that is just a sort of courtesy the system provides for you since it is such a common thing. It is most likely stored in the savedInstanceState Bundle and restored for you then after rotation/recreation.

Dylan Ali
Dylan Ali
184 Points
Dylan Ali
Dylan Ali
184 Points

I have the same question too. Don't we name all our view ids "uniquely" in the Fun Facts project ?