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[veeti]

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.

[RossM → veeti]

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-...

[yock → RossM]

It's usually better to implement onSaveInstanceState and onRestoreInstanceState.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3542333/how-to-prevent-cu...

[veeti → RossM]

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).

[RossM → veeti]

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

[veeti → RossM]

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

[veeti → veeti]

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?)