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How to simulate killing activity to conserve memory?

July 23, 2023 by Tarik

You can’t do it in an automated way b/c its completely non deterministic. See my answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15048112/909956 for details. But good news is that all you need to do is just simulate calling onSaveInstanceState and you are indirectly testing this low memory situation. onSaveInstanceState can be triggered by: losing focus (by pressing home which … Read more

when is onRestoreInstanceState called?

June 6, 2023 by Tarik

To answer your question, have a look at the android doc: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#onRestoreInstanceState(android.os.Bundle) It says that onRestoreInstanceState is called after onStart() method in the activity lifecycle.