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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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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Quote my Quote = quotes Adapter.get Item(position);
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if(chartImageView != null)
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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?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'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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View 3 Replies View RelatedI 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.
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo 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.
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.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI 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.
View 5 Replies View RelatedMy application has a portrait mode, and a landscape mode. I want the user to be able to force the landscape orientation by clicking on a button. How can I do this programatically?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have an application which is in portrait mode. However, I want to run a particular activity in landscape mode. I have tried the following with no success.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want my Activity to be always in portrait mode and I do NOT want the onDestroy() method to be called. There are some interesting articles about that at: http://www.androidguys.com/2008/11/24/rotational-forces-part-four/
The solution seems to be: In AndroidManifest.xml:
CODE:...............
I've tried it and it seems to work. Is there any other alternative or is it the correct solution?
Is there a way to pro grammatically force the screen to change between landscape and portrait mode? I want to allow the user to choose a menu item to rotate the screen, instead of relying on pulling out the keyboard. I am looking for something like activity.change Screen Orientation, but couldn't find such a thing in the API docs.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedIs 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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new Thread() {
public void run() {
Get_content() ;
handler.sendEmptyMessage(0);
}
}.start();
if I rotate the display (to landscape mode) while this is running, my application gets Force close . In the log I have this:"thread main exiting due to uncaught exception"