# Application lifecycle events in Amazon Connect Customer agent workspace
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There are lifecycle states that an app can move between from when the app is initially opened to when it is closed in the Amazon Connect Customer agent workspace. This includes the initialization handshake that the app goes through with the agent workspace after it has loaded to establish the communication channel between the two. There is another handshake between the agent workspace and the application when the app will be shutdown. An application can hook into `onCreate` and ` onDestroy` when calling `AmazonConnectApp.init()`.

The following section describe the create and destroy events in the Amazon Connect Customer agent workspace.

**Topics**
+ [Create event](integrating-with-agent-workspace-lifecycle-events-create.md)
+ [Destroy event](integrating-with-agent-workspace-lifecycle-events-destroy.md)