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FernandoPR
FernandoPR

Reputation: 123

Android options menu closed every time screen orientation changes

For some reason, every time the screen orientation is changed my app closes the context menu if it was open. All applications I have seen keep menus open after rotating the screen, but I cannot figure out why my app is closing them.

I am not handling configuration changes on my own and my onCreate method, which I know is called after every orientation change, does not touch menus at all. I would appreciate any insights on this problem.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2693

Answers (1)

evilone
evilone

Reputation: 22740

The contextMenu disappeared because by default when rotating android calls destroy() and then onCreate() but :

If you don't want Android to go through the normal activity destroy-and-recreate process; instead, you want to handle recreating the views yourself, you can use the android:configChanges attributes on the element in AndroidManifest.xml.

<activity
    android:name=".MainActivity"
    android:launchMode="singleTask"
    android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden">
</activity>

This way contextMenu is not closed when phone rotates, because onCreate() method is not called.

This topic can also be helpful - Activity restart on rotation Android

Upvotes: 1

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