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Re: Show HN: My first Android app - Hacker News reader

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Two problems with rotation: 1) The article list scrolling position is reset. 2) On my Nexus 7, going from landscape to portrait while viewing comments closes the comments.

3) Opening the comments of an article in portrait mode and then going landscape on the Nexus 7 crashes the app completely (presumably due to the multi-panel mode in sw600dp+ screens?)

Re: Show HN: My first Android app - Hacker News reader

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post #18

Is the source code available on github by chance? I've recently started delving into android and would love to study/contribute to this app if possible. Regardless, really an excellent job overall with it.

No, at least not yet. Thanks though, it's good to finally get something out there!

Re: Show HN: My first Android app - Hacker News reader

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rotation issues are usually to do with the activity being recreated (i.e. onCreate is called again) as the screen size has changed. There is a config to disable this however: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/runtime-...

If you mean configChanges, I would strongly recommend against it because it is a bad practice and it probably wouldn't work in this case anyway (no activity recreation = no multi-panel layout on a 7-inch landscape screen).

Ah, sorry I haven't done Android dev in a while; would a better way be yock's onSaveInstanceState/onRestoreInstanceState then?

Re: Show HN: My first Android app - Hacker News reader

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post #45
post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you mean configChanges, I would strongly recommend against it because it is a bad practice and it probably wouldn't work in this case anyway (no activity recreation = no multi-panel layout on a 7-inch landscape screen).

Ah, sorry I haven't done Android dev in a while; would a better way be yock's onSaveInstanceState/onRestoreInstanceState then?

Yes, something like that in combination with carrying over the existing list data with an retained fragment.
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