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Toolbar turns white (style/color not applied) in Android 6.0 Marshmallow

When we started testing our app on Android 6.0 devices the Toolbar (support action bar) is white. It's not using the colors we specified in the styles.xml. This has worked for all pre-marshmallow devices. Anyone knows why that might be? I couldn't find anything about it on Google.
Some code:
MainActivity.java
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
}
}
activity_main.xml
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context="com.example.swekjaks.actionbartest.MainActivity">
<include android:id="#+id/toolbar"
layout="#layout/tool_bar" />
</RelativeLayout>
tool_bar.xml
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#color/PrimaryColor"
android:foreground="#color/white"
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark">
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
styles.xml
<resources xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="#style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle" tools:targetApi="11">#style/RelacomActionBar</item>
<!-- Support library compatibility -->
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/RelacomActionBar</item>
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorAccent</item>
</style>
<!-- ActionBar styles -->
<style name="RelacomActionBar" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="android:background">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<!-- Support library compatibility -->
<item name="background">#color/colorPrimary</item>
</style>
</resources>

Copy the custom styles and colors to styles.xml (v21) as well and it will work fine.
The path for the styles.xml (v21) is:
\app\src\main\res\values-v21\styles.xml

I think its a bug in the design library.
I'm using libraries 23.3.0. and the bug still occurs.
Workaround for this is adding View that takes nearly no space and can be invisible. See the structure below.
<android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView
app:layout_behavior="#string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior">
</android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView>
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways" />
<android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways" />
<View
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height=".3dp"
android:visibility="visible"/>
</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>
this worked for me. let people know if it works for you.
for more details please refer https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=178037

Android.Views.InflateException: Binary XML file line #17: Error inflating class android.support.design.internal.NavigationMenuItemView

I am using a material navigation drawer in my android project using Xamarin.
I have been trying to add two Framelayouts into the drawerlayout so that I can switch the content from different fragments see below xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/drawer_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true">
<!-- This LinearLayout represents the contents of the screen -->
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<!-- The ActionBar displayed at the top -->
<include
layout="#layout/toolbar"
android:id="#+id/toolbar" />
<!-- The main content view where fragments are loaded -->
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fillViewport="true"
android:id="#+id/scrollview">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/search_frame"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/blah"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
</LinearLayout>
<!-- The navigation drawer that comes from the left -->
<!-- Note that `android:layout_gravity` needs to be set to 'start' -->
<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
android:id="#+id/nav_view"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
app:menu="#menu/drawer_view"
app:itemTextColor="#FFFFFF"
app:itemIconTint="#FFFFFF"
android:background="#464646"/>
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>
The main activity :
protected override void OnCreate(Android_OS.Bundle bundle)
{
base.OnCreate(bundle);
SetContentView(Resource.Layout.activity_main);
drawerLayout = FindViewById<DrawerLayout>(Resource.Id.drawer_layout);
// Setting up the toolbar
var toolbar = FindViewById<Toolbar>(Resource.Id.toolbar);
SetSupportActionBar(toolbar);
SupportActionBar.SetTitle(Resource.String.ApplicationName);
SupportActionBar.SetDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
SupportActionBar.SetDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);
// Attach item selected handler to navigation view
var navigationView = FindViewById<NavigationView>(Resource.Id.nav_view);
navigationView.NavigationItemSelected += NavigationView_NavigationItemSelected;
// Create ActionBarDrawerToggle button and add it to the toolbar
var drawerToggle = new Android_Support.V7.App.ActionBarDrawerToggle(this, drawerLayout, toolbar, Resource.String.open_drawer, Resource.String.close_drawer);
drawerLayout.SetDrawerListener(drawerToggle);
drawerToggle.SyncState();
}
I get the following error: Android.Views.InflateException: Binary XML file line #17: Error inflating class android.support.design.internal.NavigationMenuItemView
I have tried moving the elements in the Drawerlayout but the error is persistent. I have looked at the Android documentation everything seems correct. I have also checked that I have the most recent version of both the Design and AppCompact library

I was facing the same problem some time back, I don't know exactly what caused it, but I can tell you what I did, maybe it can help you.
My phone memory was almost full, so I deleted some apps
I uninstalled the app which was giving the error
I cleaned and rebuilt the project
Ran it again.
Voila! It worked.

I may be late, but i just got the same error. So on AndroidStudio, i just cleaned my project ("Clean Projet"). After that i was able to run my project once again without that error.

The error is because you might be extending your MainActivity by Activity instead of AppComptActivity
If you are using any of the Design Library components, you should ensure your activity extends AppCompatActivity and uses an appropriate Theme.AppCompat theme. Note that the FloatingActionButton relies on the colorAccent set on your theme - ensure your theme has that defined.

I try my solution and it did running success:
1. Clear temp on disk C(disk setup opera system)
2. Rebuild project
3. Insert in to head activity
[Activity(Theme = "#style/MyTheme")]
public class viewDetailsActivity : BaseActivity
{.....}
4. Running Project
Note: insert file style.xml this code
<style name="MyTheme" parent="MyTheme.Base">
<item name="android:textColor">#color/black</item>
</style>
<!-- Base theme applied no matter what API -->
<style name="MyTheme.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
<!--We will be using the toolbar so no need to show ActionBar-->
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<!-- Set theme colors from -->
<!-- colorPrimary is used for the default action bar background -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/primary</item>
<!-- colorPrimaryDark is used for the status bar -->
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/primaryDark</item>
<!-- colorAccent is used as the default value for colorControlActivated
which is used to tint widgets -->
<item name="colorAccent">#color/accent</item>
<!-- You can also set colorControlNormal, colorControlActivated-
colorControlHighlight and colorSwitchThumbNormal. -->
<!-- Option to hide the drop shadow here
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/MyTheme.ActionBar</item>
<item name="android:windowContentOverlay">#null</item>
-->
</style>
<style name="MyTheme.NoActionBar">
<!-- Both of these are needed -->
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>
<style name="MyTheme.ActionBar" parent="style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid">
<!-- remove shadow below action bar -->
<!-- <item name="android:elevation">0dp</item> -->
<!-- Support library compatibility -->
<item name="elevation">0dp</item>
<item name="android:background">#color/pictonBlue</item>
</style>
I think i talk English not good, but problem solve success

A quick remark regarding the exception: The exception occurs also if no content layout has been added to the DrawerLayout, so be sure to add one.
An example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/activity_main_drawer_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true">
<!-- Start of content -->
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<include
layout="#layout/toolbar"
android:id="#+id/toolbar" />
</LinearLayout>
<!-- End of content -->
<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
android:id="#+id/activity_main_navigation_view"
app:menu="#menu/menu_activity_main_navigation" />
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

Delete everything in your project's bin folder.
Delete everything in your project's obj folder.
Run Build->Clean Solution
Then try to build and run your solution again.
Just cleaning the solution wasn't enough for me; I had to manually remove everything in the bin and obj folders to get up and running again.

I just had this issue. All I needed to do was Right click on my Android solution → Properties → Android Options → set Linking to None.

I fixed it by right clicking android project -> Properties -> Android Options and selecting nothing at the Code shrinker.

Styling Toolbar does not work using AppCompat

I am trying as best I can to style the ActionBar (i.e. an android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar) in my app, but it just won't work. I am following the official documentation when trying to achieve this. What I am really trying to do is to make the title color white. It is currently displayed in black. My target API is 11.
What am I doing wrong?
res/values/themes.xml
<resources>
<!-- Base theme applied no matter what API -->
<style name="MMTheme.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#color/mm_dark_gray</item>
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/mm_brown</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/mm_dark_gray</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/mm_green</item>
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MMActionBar</item>
<item name="android:actionBarTabTextStyle">#style/MMActionBarTabText</item>
<item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">#color/mm_green</item>
<!-- Support library compatibility -->
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/MMActionBar</item>
<item name="actionBarTabTextStyle">#style/MMActionBarTabText</item>
<item name="actionMenuTextColor">#color/mm_green</item>
</style>
<style name="MMTheme" parent="MMTheme.Base"></style>
<!-- ActionBar style -->
<style name="MMActionBar" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#color/mm_green</item>
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/MMActionBarTitleText</item>
<!-- Support library compatibility -->
<item name="titleTextStyle">#style/MMActionBarTitleText</item>
</style>
<!-- ActionBar title text -->
<style name="MMActionBarTitleText" parent="#style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
<item name="android:textColor">#color/mm_white</item>
<!-- The textColor property is backward compatible with the Support Library -->
</style>
<!-- ActionBar tabs text -->
<style name="MMActionBarTabText" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar.TabText">
<item name="android:textColor">#color/mm_green</item>
<!-- The textColor property is backward compatible with the Support Library -->
</style>
</resources>
The inflated android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/mm_toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"/>
In the Activity
// Setup main Toolbar
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) mInflatedActivity.findViewById(R.id.mm_toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
getSupportActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.ic_launcher);
I have tried everything I can think of and searched a lot online, but I cannot make it work. What am I missing?
Current result is (nevermind the search icon):
Adding style="#style/MMActionBar" to the xml properties of the android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar results in this:
Changing main parent theme to Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar does nothing.

Just use this in yout layout xml
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="#color/red600"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
app:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" />
Set theme in xml itself to ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar which will make title text white.
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
app:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
And I guess this is the right way to theme Toolbar, since according to official Android Developer blog
Styling of Toolbar is done differently to the standard action bar, and
is set directly onto the view.
Here's a basic style you should be using when you're using a Toolbar
as your action bar:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar" />
The app:theme declaration will make sure that your text and items are
using solid colors (i.e 100% opacity white).

I have faced same problem. The following solution solved my problem.
For this you need to make changes at two places.
1.Modify your toolbar xml like this,
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:background="#color/ColorPrimary"
android:elevation="2dp"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/TV_tool_bar"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="My App Name"
android:textSize="18sp"
android:textColor="#FFFFFF"/>
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
Modify like this in your activity file.
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.tool_bar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
getSupportActionBar().setTitle(null);
Thats it. This will make your title color white. Cheers..!

Use this to change colors of the letters on the toolbar:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#color/ColorPrimary"
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark"
android:elevation="4dp"
>
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

Tint CheckBox and Toolbar stuff separately

I'm currently using the usually amazing appcompat-v7 library in my application and I'm trying to tint my CheckBoxes without changing the Icon-Colors in the Toolbar (like the back arrow or those three dots).
Following how it looks currently - as you can see not only the CheckBox is tinted pink, the back-arrow / three-dots are also tinted pink.
My code:
Layout
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#android:color/white"
android:orientation="vertical">
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?actionBarSize"
android:background="?colorPrimary"
android:elevation="4dp" />
<CheckBox
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="16dp"
android:text="My CheckBox" />
</LinearLayout>
Application-Theme
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">#FFC107</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#FFA000</item>
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#FFF</item>
<item name="android:textColorSecondary">#FFF</item>
<item name="colorControlNormal">#E91E63</item>
</style>
Question
What do I need to change so that the Checkbox gets pink and the Toolbar-stuff keeps being white?
Side-Note:
I guess the main problem is that I simply can't find a page where every single appcompat attribute is described. It's basically just all-out trial and error since the names of those attributes are no clear indication.

You're basically facing the same issue as described in this or this question.
So the only thing you need to do is to create a Style for your Toolbar which uses an other theme as the Activity.
Toolbar style / theme example
<style name="MyToolbarStyle">
<!-- potential other attributes -->
<item name="theme">#style/MyToolbarTheme</item>
</style>
<style name="MyToolbarTheme">
<!-- Used to tint the back arrow, menu and spinner arrow -->
<item name="colorControlNormal">#FFF</item>
</style>
Add this Style to your Toolbar and your issue should be fixed (it is important not to use the theme directly):
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
style="#style/MyToolbarStyle"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?actionBarSize"
android:background="?colorPrimary"
android:elevation="4dp" />

Android Toolbar: small title text in landscape mode

I'm testing the new Toolbar and AppCompat theme on Android and ran into a problem. My toolbar title text looks normal-sized on portrait mode but it became rather small on landscape mode although I didn't do anything in the code to change the title's text size. Here are the screen shots:
activity_main.xml:
<!-- A DrawerLayout is intended to be used as the top-level content view using match_parent for both width and height to consume the full space available. -->
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
tools:context="com.techfunmyanmar.jujaka.ui.MainActivity">
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/main_toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
app:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
android:id="#+id/drawer_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<!-- As the main content view, the view below consumes the entire
space available using match_parent in both dimensions. -->
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
<!-- android:layout_gravity="start" tells DrawerLayout to treat
this as a sliding drawer on the left side for left-to-right
languages and on the right side for right-to-left languages.
If you're not building against API 17 or higher, use
android:layout_gravity="left" instead. -->
<!-- The drawer is given a fixed width in dp and extends the full height of
the container. -->
<fragment
android:id="#+id/navigation_drawer"
android:name="com.techfunmyanmar.jujaka.ui.NavigationDrawerFragment"
android:layout_width="#dimen/navigation_drawer_width"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
tools:layout="#layout/fragment_navigation_drawer" />
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>
</LinearLayout>
styles.xml:
<resources>
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/primary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/primary_dark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/accent</item>
</style>
<!-- Main application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
</style>
<style name="DrawerArrowStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.DrawerArrowToggle">
<item name="spinBars">true</item>
</style>
</resources>

I tried to set android:titleTextAppearance of the toolbar but the style wasn't being applied. Then I realized I'm using the AppCompat theme so I used app:titleTextAppearance and the style is now being applied. It looks like the small letters in landscape are a problem in the built-in AppCompat.Toolbar.Title style itself so I overrode it to set the font size manually. The final code:
Toolbar XML:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/main_toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
app:titleTextAppearance="#style/ToolbarTitle"
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />
Toolbar Style:
<style name="ToolbarTitle" parent="#style/TextAppearance.Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar.Title">
<item name="android:textSize">20sp</item>
</style>

AOSP Issue #170707 was written regarding the change in text size for title and subtitle. Project Member response was "Works as intended. Identical to framework behavior." Although I don't find changing the text size to be the desirable default behavior, it sounds like the AppCompat engineers had to maintain consistency with the (flawed) framework behavior. Developers are then left to override the default styles as described in Chilly Chan's answer.
Additions to Chilly Chan's answer:
1) The subtitle text size can be controlled in a similar way by defining another style derived from TextAppearance.Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar.Subtitle.
2) Default values for title/subtitle size in portrait orientation are 20dp/16dp (on my Galaxy S3, 4.4.2.). Chilly Chan's example specifies "17sp". Use "sp" only if you want to let user preference setting affect title/subtitle size.

I was looking for a solution without custom Toolbar, but with custom style and this code did the trick for me:
styles.xml
<style name="MyTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorAccent</item>
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>
<style name="MyActionBar" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid">
<item name="titleTextStyle">#style/MyTitleTextStyle</item>
</style>
<style name="MyTitleTextStyle" parent="#style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Title">
<item name="android:textSize">20sp</item> <!-- Default for portrait is 20sp and for landscape 14sp-->
</style>
AndroidManifest.xml
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/MyTheme"/>
Where the MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity; tested on API 19, 22 and 23.

Try to add this to your toolbar section under the activity_main.xml.
android:minHeight="?android:attr/actionBarSize"
I also noticed that you are using standard dark action bar , suggest to use Theme with no action bar , defined a new toolbar where
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.my_awesome_toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id=”#+id/my_awesome_toolbar”
android:layout_height=”wrap_content”
android:layout_width=”match_parent”
android:minHeight=”?attr/actionBarSize”
android:background=”?attr/colorPrimary” />

I think it has to do with some layout changes performed when you rotate the device, ast it looks like you can prevent the resize by adding something like
android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize"
in the AndroidManifest.xml for the activity you're in. As always, android:configChanges has more implications so should be used only if you really need it :)