This is my third and final post in the Android key concepts series and the most important one, I think.  In this article, we will explore the Android activity lifecycle and various event handlers associated with each stage changes. If you don't know what an Activity in Android is, go to Android application components first.

We know how an application behaves in desktop platforms like Windows, Linux or Mac. After starting a program, we can minimize or restore it whenever we want and the software will preserve its state (unless the system crashes). The situation is entirely different in Android and we have lesser control on the lifetime of an application in Android. Therefore as a developer, we should make a thorough knowledge on Android activity life cycle before start developing. Continue reading →