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Cheney Hester
Cheney Hester

Reputation: 528

setDisplayOrientation changes upon onResume()

I'm using the camera and I have it in portrait mode for my app by 

camera.setDisplayOrientation(90);

when the activity goes into the background and comes back the display orientation is back to 0 aka Landscape, but when I try to setDisplayOrientation(90) again it fails and throws an error (possibly because it is final).

How do I maintain the camera being in portrait aka 90degrees mode?

Also I have to support 2.2 and higher so I can only use API 8

Upvotes: 1

Views: 80

Answers (2)

videogameboy76
videogameboy76

Reputation: 116

Per the Android API documentation, prior to API level 14 you are not allowed to set the orientation while preview is active: setDisplayOrientation() reference.

I'm guessing you need to call stopPreview(), set the desired orientation, and then call startPreview().

Upvotes: 2

J_Sizzle
J_Sizzle

Reputation: 600

If you only want it to be portrait use the Manifest.xml file to declare the activity as portrait only in the activity tag put:

android:screenOrientation="portrait" 
android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"

Upvotes: 0

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