Workaround for Android error related to setRetainInstance (true)

Question

Please check out this issue: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=20791

The project (https://github.com/kaciula/BugRetain) uses CursorLoader to get two values ​​from the database through the content provider and display them on the screen. The scenario is this: from activity A, go to activity B, switch once to orientation and return to activity A. Values ​​from db are no longer displayed.

Can someone provide a workaround for this problem? The problem does not occur only with CursorLoader, but with any bootloader. As a consequence of this error, I cannot write an application with fragments that use setRetainInstance and are available in both orientations. I really need a workaround until the guys from Android fix the problem. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Do not set your snippets as persistent if you use Loaders. If you need to save some data between configuration changes, create another saved fragment and transfer this data to it.

A similar example can be found here: FragmentRetainInstanceSupport . But this example uses an extra snippet for streaming purposes. In your case, this additional fragment will be used as a data container.