Activity onConfigurationChanged() method

[Colin Wirt]

I'm wondering if there's a way to prevent the activity from being shut down when a bluetooth keyboard is added or removed.

It looks like configChanges="keyboard" could be added to the manifest -- however I'd like to have a method that I can easily share with my students.

This page describes the behaviour I'm having: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/runtime-changes.html

android:configChanges
Lists configuration changes that the activity will handle itself. When a configuration change occurs at runtime, the activity is shut down and restarted by default, but declaring a configuration with this attribute will prevent the activity from being restarted. Instead, the activity remains running and its onConfigurationChanged() method is called.

Is there a way to add that configuration so the activity isn't restarted?

Cheers,

Colin

[Hal Abelson]

Thanks for the suggestion.

I added keyboard to configChanges, and this should be out in a near-term release.