Automatic lifecycle management for pages on a mobile application

A mobile device, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• memory storing instructions executable by the processor, wherein the instructions configure the mobile device to:
• generate with first and second user interface pages for an application, wherein each of the first and second user interface pages comprises storage and revival functionality for storing and reviving user interface page state information corresponding to the respective user interface page;
• receive an indication of a request to navigate away from the application;
• based on the indication of the request to navigate away from the application, storing user interface page state information from one of the first or second user interface page, that is open in the application;
• receive in an indication of a request to navigate back to the application;
• and
• based on the indication of the request to navigate back to the application, restoring the stored user interface page state information to the one of the first or second user interface page.

A hardware computer readable storage medium, storing computer readable instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform steps comprising:

• generating an instance of a user interface page, for an application, for display on a mobile device;
• registering an identification of page state information types in a data structure, the page state information types corresponding to the instance of the user interface page;
• receiving an indication of a request to navigate away from the instance of the user interface page for the application;
• based on the instance of the user interface page, storing page state values, for the page state information types registered in the data structure, wherein the page state values are stored in an instance-specific data structure corresponding to the instance of the user interface page;
• receiving an indication of a request to navigate back to the instance of the user interface page of the application;
• based on the indication of a request to navigate back to the instance of the user interface page, accessing the instance-specific data structure corresponding to the instance of the user interface page;
• retrieving the page state values stored in the instance-specific data structure;
• restoring the retrieved page state values to the instance of the user interface page;
• and
• generating the instance of the user interface page using the restored page state values from the instance-specific data structure.