Although the Android operating system does not appear to have a mechanism that sufficiently addresses your problem I believe this pattern does provide a relatively simple to implement workaround. The following class is a wrapper around android.os.Handler that buffers up messages when an activity is paused and plays them back on resume. Ensure any code that you have which asynchronously changes a f
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