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Process Death: Android Interview Question

Process Death interview question with a clear example answer for Android engineers. Practice with AceMobileInterview.

This is a common Android interview topic: Process Death.

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  1. 1.How is process death different from configuration change?

    System may kill the process after onStop; in-memory ViewModels die. Persist truly important state to SavedState/disk. Test with 'Don't keep activities' and background kill.

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