fragments and onConfigurationChanged

Question

I\'m trying to do something I do with activities, but within a fragment. What I do is using activities:

First stop the activity restarts when rotating the device a

Answer 1

Have you considered retaining your fragment instances? See Fragment#setRetainInstance.

Allow your Activity to be recreated (do not specify android:configChanges) but retain your fragment instances across orientation changes. If all the heavy lifting happens in Fragment#onCreate this should work fine. onCreate() will not be called again since the fragment is not being re-created.