Android activity restarted at orientation change even with configChanges set

Question

I have an Android library project and the main application that uses this library project. The manifest file of the main application looks as follows:

Answer 1

You need to add keyboard|keyboardHidden to the android:configChanges attribute. Certainly on the emulator (and on certain devices, I think), when you change orientations the keyboard state also changes. This is also needed to prevent double-restarts of your activity when you don't have it handling orientation changes.