title: EditText is losing users' input when rotating android phone
body: <p><strong>PROBLEM</strong></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>When a user types into the editText
  (landscape mode, or portrait) and
  rotates the phone the text is lost.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p><strong>QUESTION</strong></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>How can I prevent the loss of the
  text ?</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p><strong>underlying code:</strong></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>onCreate()  -> 
  setContentView(myLayout)  ->  get
  references to UI widgets with
  findViewById()</li>
  <li>onConfigurationChanged()  ->  setContentView(myLayout)  ->  get references to UI widgets with findViewById()</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>my guess is that the setContentView() within onConfigurationChanged() causes the data loss.
  What I believe I need to do is grab the data from the EditText before this happens. But how ?</p>