Forcing Android to not redraw activity on orientation change

Question

I have been going gaga to figure this out.
Although I have read a lot that on Orientation Change, Android kills an activity and starts it as a fresh one, and the only w

Answer 1

But my activity does a lot and different kind of network activities at different times and if the orientation is changed when the network activity is being performed, I'll have to handle a lot of different and complex scenarios.

Then move that logic out of the activity and into a service.