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

if you are doing a lot of networking inside Asynchronous task maybe you should use onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() ans then get the data back in your onCreate() method like this tutorial or this