4 Persisting UI State
Android does a great job of providing alternative resources at the right time. However, destroying and re-creating activities on rotation can cause headaches, such as GeoQuiz’s bug of reverting back to the first question when the device is rotated.
To fix this bug, the post-rotation MainActivity instance needs to know the old value of currentIndex. You need a way to save this data across a runtime configuration change, like rotation.
In this chapter you will fix GeoQuiz’s UI state loss on rotation bug by storing its UI data in a ViewModel. You will also address a less easily discoverable, but equally problematic, bug – UI state loss on process death – using Android’s saved instance state mechanism.
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