Android :: Android VideoView Landscape Orientation
Aug 25, 2010
I am pretty new to Android and mobile development in general. I am creating an Android application that plays a video using VideoView after a button is selected. The problem is when you rotate the phone the video restarts. I know its because the activity is destroyed and recreated when it is rotated. So I just locked the video player in landscape view. But by default you have to tilt the phone to the left (right side up) to be able to see it correctly. The other way just shows the video upside down. Is there a way to show the video correctly if the user tilts the phone to the right (left side up)?
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May 12, 2010
I am having a VideoView playing video on my Android app. When I try it on the potrait orientation, the video fills the screen. But when I change the orientation to landscape, the video takes up only half the screen space. I am using FILL_PARENT, FILL_PARENT as the layout params. Is there a way I can have the video fill the screen in both orientations?
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Jun 17, 2010
Apparently, since Froyo it's possible to display app in clockwise landscape orientation (e.g. as demoed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4YazuITS1o). However, I can't find anything related in the SDK. How can I display my app this way?
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Jun 3, 2010
I'm new to android and i was wondering if there's anyway to force landscape mode at all times. Another way of saying it, i never want to see portrait orientation on my device. Is there any settings or apps that will force landscape mode at all times (unless an app requires portrait)?
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Apr 3, 2009
I want to display a table which would fit better in portrait view than in the landscape view. How do i instruct the emulator to change the orientation?
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Jul 13, 2009
Is there a trick to getting the Hierarchy Viewer to work in landscape orientation, or is it completely broken? In Pixel Perfect View it shows my screen sideways (i.e. in portrait aspect ratio), but when I click on the views in the explorer area it outlines the wrong areas of the screen. It looks like the outlining assumes the display is in landscape orientation, so it outlines where the views would be if it were oriented correctly. Obviously fixing the display would be the best solution, but barring that I'm OK tilting my head if only the outlining would agree with the display. Anyone know a way around this?
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Sep 4, 2010
This is getting called in on Create(), how can I speed up orientation switching? private void setupChartView(int position){
Quote my Quote = quotes Adapter.get Item(position);
this.symbol = my Quote.get Symbol();
String url = "http://chart.finance.yahoo.com/z?s=" + symbol + "&t=1d&q=l&l=on&z=l&p=s&a=v&p=s&Lang=en-US®ion=US";
if(chartImageView != null)
imageDownloader.download(url, chartImageView);
if(chartImageViewLandscape != null)
imageDownloader.download(url, chartImageViewLandscape);}
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Jul 8, 2010
How did you support both landscape and portrait for appwidget? the layout of appwidget will never change when orientate the device from landscape to portrait. by the way, would you please tell me which device support both landscape and portrait for appwidget?
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Dec 18, 2009
I'm trying to detect landscape vs portrait orientation with the following:
public void onSensorChanged(SensorEvent event) { float pitch = event.values[2];
if (pitch <= 45 && pitch >= -45) { // portrait }
else if (pitch < -45) { // landscape }
else if (pitch > 45) { // landscape } }
Anyone have something more robust? It works pretty well, except if the phone is in a landscape orientation and the user starts to 'flatten' it out, starts thinking it's in the portrait orientation again.
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Feb 18, 2010
I have application in landscape orientation, I set it as <android:screen Orientation="landscape"> in Android Manifest.xml. But when my app starts another activity - default internet browser - it starts in portrait orientation.
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Jun 19, 2010
As u know, since android 1.6, there are not dirs on dirs like HVGA-L. Instead, there is only one dir like HVGA. That is, HVGA-P and HVGA-L are merged into one dir, HVGA. So, only HVGA can be selected and by default the emulator is started with portrait mode. Though I can press CTRL+F11/F12 to switch it to landscape mode, I do not like it. What I want is to start the emulator with default mode of landscape. Would anyone know how to do it?
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Sep 24, 2010
We currently use Activity.setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_x) to set (and 'freeze') the orientation of our app. Froyo now supports two landscape modes tho and we'd like to allow our users to orient the app to 'landscape right' ... ie, the orientation obtained by turning a device naturally oriented to Portrait 90 degrees clock wise.
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Nov 10, 2010
While working on orientation change I have found that the onConfigurationChanged is not getting called when changing the orientation from portrait to landscape.But when I am changing from landscape to portrait the method is getting called. Is it the correct behavior because the onConfigurationChanged should by called whenever we are changing the orientation. (android:configChanges="orientation")? I have also found one strange behavior or error, When we are changing from portrait to landscape orientation the string value is displayed correctly(automatically by android system) but when in am changing the orientation from landscape to portrait the same string is displayed(i.e the string in landscape mode).The expected behavior is the string id specified in the portrait mode should be displayed.Is it an platform bug or something wrong in my code/programming.
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Nov 1, 2010
I want to change the screen orientation from portrait to Landscape and vice-versa when the user shakes his/her android mobile phone, can any one help how to achieve this, because I do not know what event is fired, at the time his/her shaking thier android mobile phone. For Instance When the users touch the button in UI, touch event is fired, similarly when the user shakes his android mobile phone, what is fired.
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Mar 20, 2010
I've racked my brain for hours over this issue. I have created a main.xml and designed one for the res/layout-land (landscape) format and another one for portrait in res/layout. When I rotate the emulator (ctrl-F11), my app rotates properly to landscape using the correct main.xml, but a subsequent rotation back to portrait just keeps the landscape mail.xml. This was done in a 2.0 AVD.. Out of desperation I downloaded the new Sample Code for Multiple Resolutions and had to create a new 2.1 AVD, to my surprise rotation with this app works correctly as expected. So I then decided to try my app on the 2.1 AVD and it works perfectly. So, is this a Bug in a 2.0 AVD or is there something special I need to be doing for < 2.1 SDK versions?
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May 8, 2010
How can I check if the Android phone is in Landscape or Portrait?
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Jan 2, 2010
How do we change emulator screen orientation to landscape or portrait?
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Sep 4, 2010
Is this possible to do? Landscape mode distorts the background image, and therefore I would like to lock orientation to vertical on phones with accelerometers.
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Feb 23, 2010
How can the landscape screen orientation be restricted in android?
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May 1, 2010
I have a (hopefully) a relatively simple question. How do I tell Android which layout to use for portrait and which layout to use for landscape orientation on my App Widget?
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Sep 3, 2010
How can I simulate landscape orientation in the android simulator?
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Dec 18, 2009
I just got my eris yesterday (posting with it now), and I am finding typing in landscape quite uncomfortable while headphones are plugged in (i listen to a lot of music). The plug is vertical and doesn't allow me to grip the phone naturally. So, I was wondering if there was a simple way to get the reverse of landscape view. As in the eris's physical buttons would be to the left while typing instead of the right.
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Jan 1, 2010
I am trying to figure out if landscape orientation should be available all the time, or only for certain programs and apps. My home screen does not rotate, for example. Neither does People (contacts) or my call screen when I'm using the phone. Any clarification would be appreciated.
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Feb 10, 2010
I just got my Droid Eris. It was working fine to go back and forth between landscape and upright, until I calibrated the G-sensor. Now I'm not sure what's going on. I'm not sure if I've done the calibration correctly (I assume you just sit it upright on a flat surface?) or what. It will randomly go into landscape mode, but then I can't get it back upright unless I go to the home screen.
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Aug 3, 2010
I manually installed the Froyo update this morning. According to features' reports this should give me a 270 rotation. However, after choosing Automatic Rotation in settings, I found that anything with primarily text input defaults to and locks in landscape orientation. This includes google search, email, gtalk and text messaging. I prefer reading my email in portrait, so I can see more than 3 of the emails at a time. And since my text input is calibrated in portrait, landscape is just annoying me.
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Jul 24, 2009
So here's what i have.
Model Number = HTC Magic
Firmware version = 1.5
Baseband version = 62.62S.20.18U_322.20.17
Kernel version = 2.6.27-357075db herbert@and18-2 +1069
Build Number = 2.15.901.4 146733 CL#30006 release-keys
alright. Here's what i would like to know. I bought this phone just recently. And i love it. I want to find out one thing. The landscape orientation does not have the send or search button. The phone is from TIM.
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May 5, 2010
Is there a screen orientation lock feature? I haven't seen it mentioned. In fact a search only turned up mention of it as a hardware button on the iPad. This would be great for using it while lying down, reclining, in the car.
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Oct 8, 2010
I have an application, that looks good in landscape orientation only and i want to support both landscape-left and landscape-right orientation. If use setRequestedOrientation(SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE), my application gets restricted to landscape-right orientation (home key is in the right direction) and does not go to landscape-left orientation on device rotation. If use setRequestedOrientation(SCREEN_ORIENTATION_SENSOR), application goes to both landscape-left and landscape-right orientation but the problem is that it goes to portrait orientation also, on device rotation. Can somebody please highlight, how can both landscape-right and landscape-left orientations be supported without moving to portrait orientation? Are there are API to set the orientation to both landscape-left and landscape right orientation or some mechanism to prevent application from moving to portrait orientation when setRequestedOrientation(SCREEN_ORIENTATION_SENSOR) is used.
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Feb 19, 2010
I searched for this but couldn't find a solution. Is there anyway to get the home screen and subsequent side screens to go into landscape mode? I've seen some other Android Phones/Tablets doing this and would like to be able to do so. Or does anyone know if this will be an option in the 2.1 update? I heard that the Droid used to do this, and then some update messed it up, but then saw it going into landscape mode on the video they posted today of the Droid running 2.1.
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Nov 23, 2010
When using Google Maps the phone dims out, how can I stop this? and one other question, can the dialer and apps menu go to the landscape orientation?
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