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Handling Activity Lifecycle Events

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While this may sound like a broken record please remember that Android devices, by and large, are phones. As such, some activities are more important that others—taking a call is probably more important to users than is playing Sudoku. And, since it is a phone, it probably has less RAM than does your current desktop or notebook.

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© 2009 Mark L. Murphy

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(2009). Handling Activity Lifecycle Events. In: Beginning Android. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-2420-4_16

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