Android, how to not destroy the activity when I rotate the device?

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I have an app that works only in portrait mode, and I have made the changes in my manifest file for every activity the orientation to be portrait. But when I rotate the device, the activity recreates again. How to not destroy the activity?

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I was messing this up for a little bit and then relized that inside the Manifest file I was putting the configChanges on the Application level and not on the Activity Level. Here is what the code looks like when it is correctly working for me.

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
    android:supportsRtl="true"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
        <activity android:name=".MainActivity"
                  android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize|keyboardHidden">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
        </intent-filter>
    </activity> 
</application>
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Now that Android supports split screen ("multi-window" in Android parlance), you'll probably want to add screenSize|smallestScreenSize|screenLayout|orientation as well. So to handle rotation and split screen you'll want something like this in android:configChanges

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
    android:supportsRtl="true"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
        <activity android:name=".MainActivity"
                  android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize|keyboardHidden|smallestScreenSize|screenLayout">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
        </intent-filter>
    </activity> 
</application>
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