Android app resets on orientation change, best way to handle?

Question

So I am making a basic chess app to play around with some various elements of android programming and so far I am learning a lot, but this time I am lost.

When the o

Answer 1

in your manifest in the tag, you can add android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden", this will stop the activity from reloading and call onConfigurationChanged() instead when the orientation is changed or the keyboard is hidden.

If you need to make adjustments when either of these events happen, you can override onConfigurationChanged() in your activity, if not all you have to do is add the property to the manifest.

Something like:

@Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
    super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
    setContentView(R.layout.myLayout);
}

works perfectly well.