If you want to force your TextView
to save its state you must add freezesText
attribute:
<TextView
...
android:freezesText="true" />
From documentation on freezesText
:
If set, the text view will include its current complete text inside of its frozen icicle in addition to meta-data such as the current cursor position. By default this is disabled; it can be useful when the contents of a text view is not stored in a persistent place such as a content provider