DialogFragment displayed from onContextItemSelected doesn't survive onPause/onResume

Question

I have a DialogDragment which I can show one of two ways:

1) By tapping on a ListView item from its OnItemClickListener

2) By activating a the ListView\'s co

Answer 1

I would recommend destroying the dialog on all pauses and recreate in onResume depending on state regardless of how the dialog is invoked. To do otherwise risks a memory leak if the app is killed by the OS in while paused.

To explicitly answer your question, don't rely on the OS to maintain your app state.