Android Activity Lifecycle: Understanding the Basics

As a beginner Android developer, understanding the Activity Lifecycle methods is crucial to creating stable and responsive Android applications. In this post, I'll cover the basics of Android Activity Lifecycle methods and provide a reference to a YouTube video that dives deeper into this topic.

What is the Android Activity Lifecycle?

In simple terms, an Activity is a single screen in an Android app, and its Lifecycle is a series of states that the Activity goes through as it is created, started, paused, resumed, and destroyed. These states are represented by callback methods that are invoked at various points in the Activity's Lifecycle.

The Lifecycle Methods

There are seven methods that make up the Activity Lifecycle, and they are as follows:

1. onCreate()

2. onStart()

3. onResume()

4. onPause()

5. onStop()

6. onRestart()

7. onDestroy()

YouTube Video

To help you better understand the Android Activity Lifecycle methods, I've created a YouTube video that covers this topic in more detail. In the video, we'll walk you through each of the methods and explain how they work.

You can watch the video here: