EditText is losing users' input when rotating android phone

Question

PROBLEM

• When a user types into the editText (landscape mode, or portrait) and rotates the phone the text is lost.

QUEST

Answer 1

I'm not positive, but almost, that when the orientation changes the activity is completely recreated is it not? You would have to use bundle to save instance states and such, check out this discussion about roughly the same topic and I'm sure you'll figure it out! Cheers!

Answer 2

add

android:configChanges="orientation"

to your activity in the androidmanifest.xml. This will rotate the orientation but make no changes occur on orientation change.

<activity android:name=".activityname"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:configChanges="orientation">