instancestate

I'm trying to come to grips with the onSaveInstanceState method in class View (not the one in class Activity ). That method does return a Parcelable . I derived my own View from ViewGroup and overrode that method to save my own state. But when the state was to be saved I got an exception: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Derived class did not call super.onSaveInstanceState() That is true enough, but simply calling that method doesn't seem enough to me. So how should I do this? If the method would get passed a Parcel to write to, I could simply pass that same parcel to the super class, so