CODEWITHSUNDEEP
android
Snake
Snake

Reputation: 14638

Activity is restarted when a phone call is received

I have an activity which is basically a tabbed activity for keeping a score a of cards game.

The problem is that, when I get phone call and I come back to my app, then the score is cleared!

It seems like activity is restarted a phone called is received. Why is this happening and how can I fix that?

Thank you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 411

Answers (1)

Raghav Sood
Raghav Sood

Reputation: 82533

Android devices had limited memory, and can only run so many apps at once. Phone calls are one of the most taxing tasks on a mobile's hardware, as audio streams aren't exactly small on memory usage.

Due to this, I think your app's current instance is killed to free up RAM, and this results in a loss of scores for you.

To fix this, you could write the value of the scores to SharedPreferences in your Activity's onPause() and then retrieve them in onResume().

Upvotes: 3

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