Loader unable to retain itself during certain configuration change

Question

According to http://developer.android.com/guide/components/loaders.html, one of the nice thing about loader is that, it is able to retain its data during configuration chang

Answer 1

If you are using FragmentManager's replace fragment technique this issue will happen.

When you replace/remove the Fragment, the fragment is detached from the activity and since loaders are attached to the activity, the loaders will be recreated during orientation change.

Try using FragmentManager's hide/show technique. May be this will help you.