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Before we start coding,
I'd like to talk briefly about our tools.

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Remember, the Android Studio
is constantly evolving, so

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things might be a little different between
these videos and what you're using.

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If you want things to be exactly the same,

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I've provided snapshots of the tools I'm
using as downloads in the teacher's notes.

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If you run into any problems using the
newer version, don't hesitate to ask for

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help from the Treehouse community.

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Or come back and
reinstall these versions of the tools.

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As always, though the tools might change,
the code, and

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concepts, should stay relatively the same.

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If any minor changes or bugs pop up, then
we'll add a visual call-out like this.

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Keep your eyes on the teacher's notes for
any known issues or helpful comments.

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And if you spot a difference somewhere,
check the notes first, and

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then let us know if we've missed it.

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Before we get started, if you
haven't completed the fun facts app,

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you may need to download
the project files we'll be using.

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You can download the project files
from the teacher's links below, and

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then to import them, go to file, open, and

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navigate to the unzipped
folder from the download.

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If you're comfortable using GitHub,

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you can also use the GitHub link
below to import the project.

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There's also a workshop link below
if you'd like to learn more about

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Android Studio and GitHub.

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Also, remember that you'll get
the most from this course, and

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all of our material here at Treehouse
if you follow along with me.

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So, let's fire up the project and
get to it.

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So, how are we going to fix our activity?

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Let's open up the fun facts activity and

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go over how we can handle orientation
changes the little better.

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The first method we need to
know is on save instant state.

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Let's override the on
save instant state method

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by using the control O keyboard shortcut.

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This lets us pick methods
we'd like to override, and

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Android Studio will take care of the rest.

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Then, let's type
onSaveInstanceState to select it.

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And hit enter to override the method.

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OnSaveInstanceState isn't
technically a life cycle method, but

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it does provide us with a bundle where
we can store the instance state.

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We've only used bundles
briefly in earlier projects.

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But remember that a bundle is a way
to pass data between activities

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using key value pairs.

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Before we go on, let's take a moment
to talk about instance state.

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Each time we open an Android
app that isn't already running,

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we get a new instance.

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And as we use the app,

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we typically make several changes
to the state of that instance.

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For example, changing the background
color in the Fun Facts app, or

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navigating to the settings
page in an e-mail app.

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These aren't changes that we
want to permanently save.

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We wouldn't want to be greeting
with the settings page of

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an app right from the start but
since Android can destroy our

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activities when they're in the background
or whenever we rotate our device,

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[SOUND] we should save and
restore our instance state so

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that it all seems like one instance
to the user, [SOUND] start to finish.

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After all, it wasn't the user who
decided to destroy the activity.

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Back to the code.

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Now that we have our bundle, we can use
the put string method to store our fact.

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I'll type it out, and then explain it.

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The PutString method requires us to
provide both the key, and the value.

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But we haven't created the key yet.

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And we also don't have a fact variable
that we can access inside this method.

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Luckily, with Android Studio,
we can just pretend that they exist,

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and then use the quick fix with
Alt+Enter to create them later.

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It's the best practice for
keys to be static final variables.

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And further, for static final
variables to be written in all caps.

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Writing the key in caps, let's
Android Studio know what to create for us.

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Let's hit Alt+Enter on our key and
pick create constant field.

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Constant means it will be
a static final variable.

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And field means it belongs to the class.

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Then let's give our key a value of key
effect just like the name of the variable.

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Back in the on save instant state method,
we can do the same with mFact.

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Hit Alt+Enter, and

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pick field because we want this to be
scoped to the class and not the method.

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Now that we have our in fact field,
we should use it and the on click listener

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instead of creating a new
string variable in each click.

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We'll do that by getting rid of the fact
variable and replacing it with mFact.

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I'll just paste it right over.

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Looks good.

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We should probably save the background
color in our bundle as well.

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The user might notice it changing
back to green on every rotation.

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Let's do that.

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The only difference is, instead of
using PutString, we should use putInt.

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At the bottom of onSaveInstanceState,

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let's add outstate.putInt
key color M color.

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And then use Alt+Enter
to create the variables.

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I'll call the key key color.

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Create mColor as a field.

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And then replace the color variable and

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the on click listener with
our new mColor field.

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All right, we've successfully
saved the state of the activity or

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how it looks to the user using a bundle
and the new method onSaveInstanceState.

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Take a short break and

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then we can see how to retrieve this
state when the activity is created again.