Android

Activity Lifecycle
 Component Lifecycle
• Component lifecycle
– From the beginning when Android instantiates a
component to respond to intents through to the end
when the instance is destroyed
– In between, the component may sometimes be active
or inactive
– Activities may be visible to the user or invisible

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 Component Lifecycles
• Activity Lifecycle •Activity in the foreground of the screen

– Three states Resumed (at the top of the activity stack for the
current task)

• Resumed, paused and

stopped
– The system can drop a Paused •Activity has lost focus but is still visible to
the user
paused or stopped activity
from memory either by:
•Activity is completely obscured by
– asking it to finish (calling
its finish() method) Stopped another activity
•It still retains all state and member
information
– simply killing its process.

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 Activity Lifecycle

F
Activity
A r onCreate()
n a onStart()
d m Paused
Resumed
Stopped
Started
onResume() Created
(partially
r e (hidden)
(visible)
visible)
o w onPause()

i o onStop()
d r onRestart()
k
onDestroy()

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 Activity Lifecycle
Activity
launched

onCreate()

onStart() onRestart()
Entire Lifetime

onResume()
Lifetime
Visible

Foreground App process Activity

Lifetime killed Running

onPause()

onStop()

Activity
onDestroy() shut down

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 Coordinating Activities
• When one activity starts another, they both experience lifecycle
transitions
– One pauses and may stop, while the other starts up.
• The order of lifecycle callbacks is well defined, particularly when the two
activities are in the same process. For example if Activity A starts Activity
B:
1. A's onPause() method is called.
2. B's onCreate(), onStart(), and onResume() methods are called in sequence.
3. Then, if A is no longer visible on screen, its onStop() method is called.

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 Chat Client App
• Off to the next app: Chat Client UI
– ListView with Custom Adapter
– Layouts

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