What is a frozen icicle? [duplicate]

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What is android's icicle parameter?

I've seen the term "frozen icicle" used in several places in the Android API documentation, but nowhere have I ever seen it explained. What is a frozen icicle? I had at first thought that it meant the triangles used when sel开发者_StackOverflow中文版ecting text, but now I wonder if it has something to do with saved instance state.

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The first answer here seems most likely:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/923963/4819445