View State lost with click...

Answer 1

I'm not sure it's relevant - but do you need to implement View.verifyDrawable? The docs aren't very clear as to when you need to do that.

startActivity will trigger an animation by default - which is probably what is forcing the view to refresh correctly. Another possible hack around this would be to trigger an empty animation of some sort.

Answer 2

I was able to find a workaround for my case. I'm not sure it is the best way and I still don't know what is causing the behavior, but I was able to get what I wanted by calling notifyDataSetChanged() on my gallery's adapter.

If anyone has a better suggestion on how to solve the problem (mine seems like it might be a little overkill) or even a description of why this is happening, I would appreciate it... I am very curious about what is going on behind the scenes.