Tracking the application's life cycle
In the "safe" MS Windows desktop application development land, our application has a life cycle but it is not so crucial take care of it. Usually, you have a set of events to handle such as FormCreate
, FormClose
(at the form level), or Application OnRestore
, or application OnTerminate
. In some cases, you have to handle the state where the main application window is minimized, and this is still simple. In the mobile world, as usual, things are a bit more complex. The concept of life cycle is an evidence. Just to make things messier, the Android activity's life cycle is different from the iOS view life cycle. Remember, when an app is in background, it can be completely destroyed.
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