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Warn Android users to initialize the SDK once in Application.onCreate() when using manual setup.

Call out Activity lifecycle methods as the wrong place for normal startup initialization, since they may run multiple times and make init-related behavior harder to reason about.

Refs JAVA-722

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Warn Android users to initialize the SDK once in Application.onCreate when using manual setup.

Call out Activity lifecycle methods as the wrong place for normal startup initialization, since they may run multiple times and make init-related behavior harder to reason about.

Refs JAVA-722
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Nice!

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