Android :: How To Save State Of An Activity On An ActivityUnitTestCase
Jan 22, 2009
In an ActivityUnitTestCase I'm trying to do:
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But on the save state call I get this trace:
CODE:.................................
Going through the ApplicationContext source code I've found this (http://tinyurl.com/d8qsyc):
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It seems the problem is that the activity token is not set. But here I'm puzzled, I don't know where to go next. Any ideas on how to fix it or workaround it are appreciated. I want to test that my application is saving its state correctly.
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Jul 1, 2010
I have an Activity, which contains a bunch of check boxes and a submit button.
When the submit button is clicked, the activity will exit (finish() will be called). Before the activity exits, I want to save the states of the check boxes in the activity, so when the activity starts again, the check boxes can stay in their previous states. What's the correct way to save these states? Should I use SharedPreference.
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Nov 17, 2010
I am trying to save some values in the onSaveInstanceState(Bundle) method of my activty by following the example here: How do I save an Android application's state?
But it doesnt seem to load it from the Oncreate(). the bundle object is always null but whenever i call another activity, it does indeed go into the onSaveInstanceState method to save my values.
Now i read that question i just posted and someone noted how they could not get it to work in an emulator? unfortunately that is all im working on. On an emulator and cant test the app on the device as i have no device available to me right now And the web services i am interacting with are in a local VM on my work machine that cannot be accesses remotely at the moment.
My question is, is it true that saved bundles dont work on emulators? I also noticed how when i do dismiss or bring up a new activity , the activity calles onPause and then onStop. when i bring back the same activty, it goes straight to onCreate?
now according to the docs here http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#actlife That is correct in terms of what the lifecycle diagram shows but if you read below that diagram on the onStop() section it says the next step it goes into is either onRestart() or onDestroy()? no mention of onCreate? Type on the docs?
Anyways here is my onSaveInstanceState() and onCreate() both in the same activity: code...
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Feb 22, 2010
I have a basic app with text inputs, a spinner input, and a second spinner input whose array depends on a setting changed in the Options menu. Currently, when I press Home or press Return while in my app, I either return to the desktop or cycle back through old inputs i put in recently. How can I prevent my app from opening multiple instances of itself so that there is only one instance running at any given time, and then how can I save the data entered into inputs, and the settings chosen in my option menu? I'm a bit new to Java, so I apologize if this is a simple problem.
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Sep 1, 2010
can someone helpme out with how to save state of the app when the screen orientation is changed i read the development guide at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/runtime-changes.html#HandlingTheChange
But i dont know how to define the method collectMyLoadedData();
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Aug 30, 2010
I am writing an app where I get all the data from the rest call and display all the data in a custom component list(based on Linear Layout) which is added to a LinearLayout. I write this code in onCreate of the activity. The problem is when I switch activity using startActivity, and come back to the calling activity (using startActivity) then onCreate is called again. I see onPause, onStop called when I call other activity. Is there any way that I can save the application's state?
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Jul 16, 2010
I am developing an android application in which,the first activity is that for Login. After successful authentication, user can see an activity with 4 Tabs. My problem is that when user taps on the home button,the application should terminate and when the user again starts my application, he should be able to see the Login screen again and after successful Login, user should be able to see the tab on which he was working before application terminated(i.e., save state for all the tabs).
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Aug 9, 2010
I've encountered a problem wile using my own subclass of android.app.Application. I have numerous activities in my application and I'm running a custom ROM which consumes quite a lot of memory. What happens is when I launch a third party activity (Camera) my Application is killed. My Application subclass stores vital data for the whole app so it can't work without it. android.app.Application doesn't have any methods for saving or restoring application state. Activity does have them but they are not suitable.
How to perform save/restore state on Application subclass?
UPDATE I've managed to do so by filling a Bundle obtained from onSaveInstanceState and restoring values in onCreate. But is there any better way?
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Sep 4, 2010
In a previous question I asked how I could display two different layouts for portrait and landscape orientations:
Problem switching to landscape orientation
Now I would like to know how I can save the state of my application before it goes into another orientation? I seem to lose this data any time orientation changes.
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Oct 12, 2010
I was looking at the way Android handles orientation change for my application (I discovered that it restarts the mainactivity on orientation change :| ). I've seen that you can ovveride the method protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState)to save stuff, then have the in onStart. The problem is that I've my view with custom objects and a listview using a custom adapter... Everything is in a ArrayList of these objects, but I've noticed that you can't put arbitrary objects in the bundle! So how do I save the state?
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Sep 24, 2009
I wonder what is the right way to implement this? Could anybody advice whether my solution is correct?
So:
Activity is created
User clicks on button and dialog is launched (Dialog, not dialog styled activity)
User opens keyboard
we have onSaveInstanceState called where we save that our dialog was opened and all respective dialog input
we have onRestoreInstanceState and here we check whether dialog was shown, recreate the dialog with respective input.
Is it the right approach? or there is smth. that is done by Android and I am doing some redundant actions.
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Jan 11, 2010
As a follow on from my question on sharing state between Activities, how can I save the instance state of my Application? Since Application does not extend Activity, there is no onSaveInstanceState method to override.
NB: In advance, this is not a duplicate. Despite its name, How do I save an Android application's state? relates to Activity state
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Apr 30, 2010
This is a bit complicated to explain (and my first post), so bear with me please: I am currently trying to figure out the best way of saving my application's state in a bundle on the onSaveInstanceState event (working on a game). My application's state is based on a "world" class which contains various objects. Among these objects there is a creature object which contains bitmaps (Bitmap object)(allowing me to draw the various sprites of the creature when it's walking with more flexibility and accessibility).
Bit of creature constructor Java:
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After looking around for a few hours I found that serializing the world object (and all its sub-objects) was an acceptable way of saving it in the bundle. Unfortunately it appears that we can't serialize bitmaps and considering they're a part of my "creature" I can't seem to see a workaround.
Here come my questions: 1- Am I doing something fundamentally wrong? (not supposed to save bitmaps in objects? supposed to handle bitmaps in a separate class which I don't pass on the bundle and reload my bitmaps when restoring the application? ...) 2- Is there another way of passing my "world" object into my bundle (would using Parcelable work?)
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Jul 3, 2010
I created an instance of a custom class RestaurantList to hold my data (a list of restaurant data received from a web service as json data).How can I save it in onSaveInstanceState? Code...
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Sep 29, 2010
I'm new to android, please help me how to save the state of checkbox,
i.e.
I've ListView with checkbox, three textview and again checkbox. I wish to save the checked state of item(s),
how to save the state of checkbox.
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Nov 16, 2010
I'm developing an application which allows user to edit an image and save that edited image as new image on sd card I want to get the current state of the canvas object.
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Sep 11, 2010
I have some 34 checkboxes on one Activity which i have to mark and unmark. and I want to save the status of the each checkbox.
I want this persistently. So should i have a sqlite table or preferences ?
If sqlite table is recommended, then what should be the ideal table structure design?
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Oct 20, 2009
I have a custom View, what is the proper way of saving / restoring it's state after orientation change. I know I should implement onSaveStateInstatnce() and onRestoreInstanceState() methods, but how exactly (with which argumets) and when I should call them?
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Nov 24, 2010
It would be nice if StackOverflow had a section where we could post tutorials like mine so that I can answer literally hundreds of questions that have been asked here with a single blow. See... every day I read questions about how to pass complex objects between activities, how to save state so that your app can resume after orientation change, how to update listviews when the data changes, etc, etc. Here is the second part of a tutorial series I posted on my blog... I hope that you actually read it... because I haven't seen any examples like it anywhere... and it has changed how I think about developing for Android across the board. The question is... is there a downside or negative affect of developing like this?
Beyond Smart Lists - How Observable Singletons change the game. Please read through both of these tutorials carefully... I will answer any questions about it here that I can... I really want to know what you think about this and if it might solve issues for you. NOTE TO MODERATORS: there are no advertisements of any kind on my blog.. so don't just close this because you think I am spamming somehow... I am not going to duplicate my post here.
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Mar 9, 2010
I cant find a way to save the checkbox state when using a Cursor adapter. Everything else works fine but if i click on a checkbox it is repeated when it is recycled. Ive seen examples using array adapters but because of my lack of experience im finding it hard to translate it into using a cursor adapter. Could someone give me an example of how to go about it.code...
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Sep 20, 2010
I have noticed while working in the emulator that whenever i get out of my app via any method other than pressing the back button, my toggle button (if pressed) will have its state saved and return to that state when i return to the app. im guessing its because its value gets saved in a bundle and reloaded when i return. when i leave the app via the back button, this does not happen and the toggle is always off when i return. is there any way to get the value of the toggle back if the user leaves via the back button, without having to save the value in a db table? alternatively, if my apps notification is in the status bar, i can be confident that the toggle should always be selected, so if there is no way to save the state, is there a way to find out if my apps notification is currently being displayed? then it would be easy to just set the toggle each time via a quick check of the status bar.
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Feb 19, 2010
In Android, you need to implement the following Activity methods so your application can be restored to its previous state if the OS decides to destroy then recreate your activity:
public void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState)
public void onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState)
The examples I've seen of implementing these methods is to use put/getBoolean, put/getInt etc. on the Bundle object (i.e. primitive objects only) to save the application state. This seems hugely error prone way to save your state for a start and I cannot see how this scales to storing complex objects without writing lots of code.
What options do I have for storing/restoring state in a robust and easy to implement fashion?
In case it's important, my application (a game) needs to store about 50 objects, which each store maybe 5 float variables and some store references to other objects. I don't particularly want to have to write save/restore methods for every class and subclass (maybe about 15 of these) I use. It would be ideal if I could just stick all my state relevant objects in an object called "state" and then just call save/load on "state" to handle everything.
Is using Java serialization an option? I've heard it's very slow, but is that a problem for save/restoring? Could I just write my data to the SD card? To a database?
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Mar 2, 2010
I'm trying to test an Activity in android which will show a ProgressDialog and everything works fine in the App, however when I try to use ActivityUnitTestCase and the test causes the Activity to show the dialog it fails with this error:
CODE:................................
I was looking at the problem and it seems that the onCreateDialog method of my activity crashes when we try to create it from the test, which I assume is another context, I get that, however I wonder is any of you have been successful on trying such a scenario.
This is the code of my onCreateDialog.
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May 17, 2010
I am trying to make a task switcher and i succed in it. My only problem is that when I launch activities, they are relaunched as they were new activities ( for instance, I am writing an email, i press home and go into my activity,launch email, and then the app launch the email bout goes back at the inbox and the email is lost) So that's not true multitasking.
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Nov 22, 2010
I want see the state of my activity (Pause Stop Resume etc etc) without override each methods like this: Code...
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Aug 18, 2010
I have one query. In Home Application the timer is running and if any ANR or Alert or Notify come then this home activity would go in Pause state but timer is running and visible. How it is happening. Can anybody explain me how this work.
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Jun 14, 2010
Suppose i have a program that' s currently in a PAUSED state. Then the user launches another activity. In this second one, i want to find if the first one is in paused state or not because, if its paused, i want to recover it.
Is there a way to find if a specific activity is in pause state or not?
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May 10, 2010
I wrote a test case with ActivityUnitTestCase which was working fine.
Now I added a dimensions file (dimens.xml) and using the values with a style.xml.
Here some parts from the dimens.xml:
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The style.xml is in the android manifest.
On the G1 and the emulator the code works fine. In the test case I'm getting a crash.
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From the call stack I can see that this line causes the crash:
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May 6, 2010
I m currently working on landscape mode for android app in which i want to know how to maintain the state of the activity and views displayed on orientation change i.e from portrait mode to landscape mode ?
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Jul 24, 2010
I would like my Activity to be informed when the SD card is removed, since it relies on files from the SD card (to keep apk size down) but for compatibility reasons is not targeted at Froyo. I'd like to close the application when the SD card is removed/mounted (giving the user a dialog message to inform them of course) so that I don't get IOExceptions etc (I'd quite like to not have to check everytime I load a file to see if the external storage is available, I already do a check on application launch). There doesn't seem to be any attribute in the manifest for this (like configChanges) that I can find.
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