Why use Fragment#setRetainInstance(boolean)?

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How do you as a developer use this

Call setRetainInstance(true). I typically do that in onCreateView() or onActivityCreated(), where I use it.

and why does it make things easier?

It tends to be simpler than onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() for handling the retention of data across configuration changes (e.g., rotating the device from portrait to landscape). Non-retained fragments are destroyed and recreated on the configuration change; retained fragments are not. Hence, any data held by those retained fragments is available to the post-configuration-change activity.

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