Android activity lifecycle - same method gets called twice

Question

I have a method that gets called both from onNavigationItemSelected of ActionBar and onResume lifecycle methods. So, when the Activity gets created, the method gets called twice.

So will it be possible to implement like that when the method is called from onNavigationItemSelected, it should not get called from onResume?

so the method is called from 3 places ? onNavigationItemSelected , onresume and oncreate ? — baboo, Feb 12 '13 at 14:11
Check this : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9517749/android-action-bar-onnavigationitemselected — baboo, Feb 12 '13 at 14:13
No, it is called from `onResume` and `onNavigationItemSelected` only. It is not called from `onCreate`. — jaibatrik, Feb 13 '13 at 06:25
Tried ? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9517749/android-action-bar-onnavigationitemselected — baboo, Feb 13 '13 at 12:07
Yes, that comes closest to a solution. Could you please post this as an answer, so that I can accept it? — jaibatrik, Feb 13 '13 at 13:39

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 12 '13 at 13:49

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Only call your method in onResume. onResume is called when the Activity is created the first time as well. See Activity Lifecycle for further details.

answered Feb 12 '13 at 13:49

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Sorry, I had to rephrase the question. Please see that. – jaibatrik Feb 12 '13 at 13:58

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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Use a manual flag/boolean as used here android action bar onNavigationItemSelected

so that you can ignore the first call to onNavigationItemSelected method

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Feb 13 '13 at 13:43

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 12 '13 at 13:56

In Activity life cycle OnCreate() is called only once and OnResume() is called every time after stop, pause, start and before OnCreate. So decide what you actually want. If you want to call method on every resume then call it only in OnResume not in OnCreate..

Android activity lifecycle - same method gets called twice

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