How to disable onCreate action when will orientation be changed?

Question

How can I disable onCreate event when I turn my device from portrait orientation? Because when application starts it will get much of its data from the Internet, and it will be bad to download this data every time the user turns his device.

Answer 1

In Activity tag of manifest write

android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize"

example:

<activity android:name=".MainActivity"
            android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize">