# Save int for Android program

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**Category:** Processing for Android\
**Created:** [June 16, 2019, 10:16am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/save-int-for-android-program/12092 "2019-06-16T10:16:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/save-int-for-android-program/12092/8 "2019-06-16T19:05:36Z")

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Here is a link where `onPause` is described in case you want to know more about [this](https://github.com/processing/processing-android/wiki/Lifecycle-of-a-Processing-sketch).

I did a quick search in the forum:

> [Search results for 'onPause' - Processing Foundation](https://discourse.processing.org/search?q=onPause)

And I recommend this: [super.onSaveInstanceState does not exist - #13 by akenaton](https://discourse.processing.org/t/super-onsaveinstancestate-does-not-exist/3251/13) to start.

You can add the following to your sketch:

```java
// @@@@@@@@@@@@
@Override 
  public void onPause() {
  super.onPause();
}

```

Also, this [link](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8640821/how-to-save-application-state-on-android) gives a lead to what you could do next. For now, you can use the file approach. You whould be able to use functions `saveStrings()` and `loadStrings()` for this purpose. More [here](https://processing.org/reference/).

Kf

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