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

Yes, you can add attribute android:configChanges="orientation" to the activity declaration in the AndroidManifest.xml file.

IMHO, it's better to declare android:configChanges="orientation|keyboard|keyboardHidden"

About the blog post you gave the link in another answers. I guess here is the answer:

If your application doesn't need to update resources during a specific configuration change and you have a performance limitation that requires you to avoid the Activity restart, then you can declare that your Activity handles the configuration change itself, which prevents the system from restarting your Activity.

I spoke as well with an android developer about this problem. And he meant following. If you don't have different layouts for landscape and portrait orientation, you can easy use configChanges.