I encountered this somewhat strange behavior while developing on Android and during my googling the only answer I could find was that this is by design and that I should not care about it. My appl...

Let's say we have a default, empty activity with default behaviour, launched with default intent flags. User presses back button on the device. The activity disappear... but how, actually? Is pre...

I want to finish my activity when it pauses for specific reasons. Up till recently my code was working perfectly but recently the finish() method stopped doing its job for some reason. Also, when t...

My app saves the user original brightness with: originalBrightness = Settings.System.SCREEN_BRIGHTNESS; and then changes it while the program running. originalBrightness is private global string...

Attempting to decide (for my application) what to save in onPause() and what to save in onSaveInstanceState(), I combed the entire SO for hints and clear guidelines. If I understand correctly, onS...

I have a problem. After initializing the camera for a preview and bringing another app into focus, then back to my app: the preview shows up black. If I continue to take a picture, it takes a pictu...

Possible Duplicate: How do I save an Android application's state? I am new to Java and Android and building some small projects to learn. I made a money tracking app which allows ...

I have a broadcast receiver registered programatically in a activity. It responds to the PACKAGE_REMOVED intent, that fires when a package gets removed. The problem is, it doesn't get this messag...

I was wondering what could be the reason for not having a callback at the application level when an application goes to background and comes to the foreground. Activity class's onPause and onResume...

I have a WebView that contains a html file that contains a Flash plugin (a video). When the user presses play on the Flash plugin, the video plays fine. However when the user closes the app or m...

I'm have a game that's uses SurfaceView implementation to display the objects. I have a thread which draws the SurfaceView time-to-time to the screen. The game is running completely. Unfortunately,...

My application is randomly pausing (going into the onPause method) then resuming (going into the onResume method) when I'm not even touching the screen. In logcat, there is no indication what is ca...

I'm pretty new to android development and I need some help saving the state of an activity. What is the correct way to save the instance from onPause and restoring it from onRestore since obviously...

I'm developing an app for Android, and I want it to pause the music when you press the home button (onPause). That works fine, but then when I try to start up the game again, onResume, onRestart, o...