Android :: Retrieve Saved State Of Custom View In Constructor?

The "View" instance currently provides a way to retrieve the saved state using the methods below, but there doesn't seem a way to retrieve the view's saved state in the constructor, or onFinishInflate. The custom view is constructed via XML, so I cannot pass the saved bundle from the Activity to the View's constructor.

Relevant methods: - protected Parcelable onSaveInstanceState() and - protected void onRestoreInstanceState(Parcelable state)

I need this because I make an asynchronous network request in a custom view constructor, and if there is a configuration (orientation) change, the custom view is getting reconstructed, and the request is getting performed again. I want to intercept the second request in the constructor. I can do this in the onRestoreInstanceState, but I need to handle this in the constructor.

It would be nice if there was a method such as getSavedState so that the decision can be made in a constructor or onFinishInflate instead of waiting for the onRestoreInstanceState trigger.