How to deal with orientation change with a ProgressDialog showing?

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james picture james · Sep 12, 2010 · Viewed 9.5k times · Source

I am showing a ProgressDialog in the onPreExecute method of an AsyncTask object and canceling the ProgressDialog in the onPostExecute method. In the doInBackground method I am making an HTTP request for user registration. I wish to allow screen orientation changes. When I change the orientation while the doInBackground method is still running, i get all sorts of fun errors like 'IllegalArgumentException: View not attached to window manager' and 'RegisterScreen has leaked window...'

How can I properly continue to show the ProgressDialog after an orientation change? Or maybe, how can I disable orientation change after the user requests to submit their registration?

Answer

Ragunath Jawahar picture Ragunath Jawahar · Sep 13, 2010

Try adding this attribute android:configChanges="orientation" to your Activity element in the AndroidManifest.xml file.

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