How to persist a View across Activities in Android

Question

I\'m working on an Android application and I\'d like to maintain a top-bar of sorts in most of my Activities, as per the Twitter and Facebook applications. How is this done? I\'

Answer 1

I think your best bet would be to define a custom view and re-use it wherever needed. Though I don't think you'd technically have the same instance across activities, you can produce the illusion by updating it whenever necessary. (Perhaps in the onResume() method of each activity.) To save the data you can use SharedPreferences, which do persist across activities in an application, and even between instances of the particular application.