How to handle screen orientation change when progress dialog and background thread active?

Question

My program does some network activity in a background thread. Before starting, it pops up a progress dialog. The dialog is dismissed on the handler. This all works fine, exc

Answer 1

This is a very old question that came up on the sidebar for some reason.

If the background task only needs to survive while the activity is in the foreground, the "new" solution is to host the background thread (or, preferably, AsyncTask) in a retained fragment, as described in this developer guide and numerous Q&As.

A retained fragment survives if the activity is destroyed for a configuration change, but not when the activity is destroyed in the background or back stack. Therefore, the background task should still be interrupted if isChangingConfigurations() is false in onPause().