Android: Tilting mobile makes ImageView content disappear / URI refreshed

Thank you in advance for any responses. I am facing rather a trivial problem. Hardware: Motorola (Android phone)

I am displaying an image in an imageview. The image itself is grabbed off a URI via ContentResolver. The problem is that whenever I tilt my mobile, the imageview gets blank. By tracing the log and variables I found out that the relevant URI goes back to its default (i.e. null) value whenever I tilt the mobile.

Of course there is a workaround for it i.开发者_运维技巧e. using static variables. But I am wondering if there is another solution since I would really like to pass the URIs around in functions to do what I desire with my application.

Does anyone know what's going on?

Regards.

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