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Re:Don't kill my app by kqr on Thursday November 23, 2023 @01:16AM (#38389922)
I feel like this is how Android has been designed from the start.

Ages ago apps used to have a bug where form contents were cleared if the user switched from portrait to landscape orientation -- same problem: developers assumed they could store state in instances of input fields, when in fact these would be re-instantiated when the view was significantly re-rendered.

This specific case seems like a continuation of that misunderstanding and a difference in intuition between Android architecture and PC developers, rather than an actual fault with Android.

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Re:Don't kill my app by BoorishBears on Thursday November 23, 2023 @01:33AM (#38390012)
Nah configuration changes are definitely a fault.

Rotating your device or plugging in a keyboard should cause the UI to be torn down: it makes for a horrible UX and it's behavior that dates back to a phone that had 192MB of RAM.

It should have been ditched ages ago but in typical Android fashion lived on so long that now it can't really be changed and instead the SDK tries to work around it by providing developers with primitives to work around it.

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