Funky android activity behavior when screen turns off?

Question

I\'m seeing some interesting activity flow when android turns off the screen and locks the screen... my app goes through the regular flow, onCreate, onStart and onResume. Then,

Answer 1

In the activity's manifest, for each application add:

android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"

This tells android you'll handle these two cases yourself - although of course you're lying: you won't do shit to handle them, but Android doesn't know that. This works great for apps/games/etc running for example in landscape mode and never change orientation.