How to distinguish whether onDestroy() is called as part of configuration change sequence?

Question

In my Activity some external thing (service) need to be destroyed in onDestroy(). But I do not want this when configuration change happens (e.g. keyboard flips out) because it w

Answer 1

In Android 3.x (API Level 11), you can call isChangingConfigurations() to see if the activity is being destroyed due to a configuration change.

Prior to that, override onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() and set a boolean data member (e.g., isChangingConfigurations) to true, and check that data member in onDestroy().