The "benefit" might be that you can have very fine grained control over the control flow through your app, but in practice this should be achieved through something more standard (i.e., having weird control flow will likely upset users...)
You might think you'd use less memory, but you shouldn't really have *that* many Activities on the stack at a time, otherwise you're doing something wrong. kris On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 5:12 PM, bsd_mike <[email protected]> wrote: > True, using multiple activities saves hassle on developer > side..especially trying to remember where to back up too.. > but is there any benefit from not having a pile of activities? > > If you were doing MVC..and your controller keeps track of the > screens..properly sends you back to a previous screen when back > is pressed..hassle aside, is there any benefit to using one Activity? > > This is kind of a philosophical question I realize...probably not > demanding as much thought as I am giving it..but I appreciate > the input. > Thank you, > Mike > > > > On Mar 10, 12:17 pm, niko20 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Using multiple activities is much less hassle on the developer side > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sunday, March 10, 2013 8:45:09 AM UTC-5, bsd_mike wrote: > > > > > Just wondering what the consensus is doing a UI. > > > Should you kick off a new activity each time you put up a new screen? > > > Or should you do what some call a Frankenstein-Activity which handles > > > lots of screens and the back-button > > > itself. > > > > > When should you do either? > > > > > Are there best practice guidelines for this? > > > > > Thank you, > > > Mike > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
