Recently purchased this book: http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Android-Application-Development-ebook/dp/B007SR7NOO/ref=pd_sim_kstore_14?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2
In Chapter 3, the section discussing “Activity state event handlers” ends with this statement:
As shown in the preceding code, you should always call back to the superclass when overriding these event handlers.
So simple question… Why?