15.6 Testing the Application
All that remains is once again to build and run the StateChange application. Once running and in the foreground, touch the EditText component and enter some text before rotating the device to another orientation. Whereas the text changes were previously lost, the new text is retained within the editText component thanks to the code we have added to the activity in this chapter.
Having verified that the code performs as expected, comment out the super.onSaveInstanceState() and super.onRestoreInstanceState() calls from the two methods, re-launch the app and note that the text is still preserved after a device rotation. The default save and restoration system has essentially been replaced by a custom implementation, thereby providing a way to dynamically and selectively save and restore state within an activity.