Avoid restarting the application when opening the hardware keyboard

Question

I am currently working on a multi-threaded game application for the Android platform ... so far so good ... I just overcame an error in my application that caused it to restart the orientation change (fixed by indicating depending on the availability of a hardware keyboard or not , which is important because it is an online game with chat capabilities), and it works ... BUT now I try to avoid the same problem when the user simply opens the hardware keyboard slide. I'm not quite sure how to do without restarting my application or saving the state of my application. Any solutions / suggestions?

Answer 1

<activity> :

android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"

:

@Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(final Configuration newConfig)
{
    // Ignore orientation change to keep activity from restarting
    super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
}