[android-developers] Activity.setIntent() is a noop if activity is recreated

Using setIntent() is dangerous in the face of activity recreations (which can be more easily triggerred with "Developer settings | Don't keep activities"). Normally getIntent() returns the intent set by setIntent(). However, this gets reset after the activity is recreated. This is in line with the trivial implementation of setIntent() in https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/core/java/android/app/Activity.java

    public void setIntent(Intent newIntent) {

        mIntent = newIntent;

    }

This seems like a "bug" in setIntent in the sense that it misleads people into thinking that it can be used to cache state without realizing the activity recreate problem. Am I missing anything?

Thanks,

Shri

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