App completely restarting when launched by icon press in launcher

Question

I\'m in the process of trying to make a release build of my first android app to send to a few testers. However, I ran into a problem with it. When you exit the app and then

Answer 1

When you press the back button in Android, the onDestroy method is invoked (as opposed to pressing the home button, where only the onPause() method is invoked).

If you need your app to continue where it left off, save the state of the app in your onDestroy() method and load that state in the onCreate() method.