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		veeti on Jan 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: My first Android app - Hacker News reader If you mean configChanges, I would strongly recommend against it because it is a bad practice and it probably wouldn't work in this case anyway (no activity recreation = no multi-panel layout on a 7-inch landscape screen).

RossM on Jan 18, 2013 [–]

Ah, sorry I haven't done Android dev in a while; would a better way be yock's onSaveInstanceState/onRestoreInstanceState then?

veeti on Jan 18, 2013 | [–]

Yes, something like that in combination with carrying over the existing list data with an retained fragment.

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