topic Re: Save Graphics on Map Rotation in ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Android Questions

Save Graphics on Map Rotation

BrianGustafson — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:26:46 GMT

Is there away to save the graphics in the graphics layer on map rotation? Do I need to store something in a SQLite database?

Re: Save Graphics on Map Rotation

PatrickBarnhart — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:22:48 GMT

Try adding this to the map activity in your manifest xml and see if it does what you need - it doesn't save them anywhere but it does keep your graphic layers from being wiped when the device orientation changes, if that's what you're after.

        <activity android:label="@string/app_name" android:name="your.package.activity" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar" android:configChanges="orientation">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

with this I didn't have to use onRetainNonConfigurationInstance()/getLastNonConfigurationInstance() to rebuild the map, onCreate gets called once, etc. Found it in the HelloWorld example after doing some digging.

Re: Save Graphics on Map Rotation

DineshMathur — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:25:19 GMT

ESRI is about to release next version of the API in this week. This version is expected to be having a sample for workaround for offline editing.
This sample should give you information about how to save features/graphics into a file.

Hope this will be able to solve your problem.

Good Luck

Dinesh Mathur