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N Sharma
N Sharma

Reputation: 34517

How to make application run portrait in phone and landscape on tablets

Hi I am looking to learn about these so that I can give more good layouts and UI exp of my application. I want my app must run only in portrait mode in case of phone that I can set in the AndroidManifest.xml like 

    <activity
        android:name=".SplashActivity"
        android:label="@string/title_activity_splash"
        android:screenOrientation="portrait">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

But This will keep for all phones and tablet. If I do this way then of course my layout won't look good on 7 and 10 inch screens.

Question

How to set such that my app run in portrait mode in mobile phones and landscape mode on 7 and 10 inch screens.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1682

Answers (2)

Ali Behzadian Nejad
Ali Behzadian Nejad

Reputation: 9044

Create a new file named bools.xml in values folder as below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <resources>
    <item type="bool" name="isLargeLayout">false</item>
</resources>

create another file in values-large folder named bools.xml as below: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <resources>
    <item type="bool" name="isLargeLayout">true</item>
</resources>

Now in your activity before calling to setContentView get this resource and based on its value decide port or land orientation:

boolean isLargeLayout = getResources().getBoolean(R.bool.isLargeLayout);
if(isLargeLayout) {
    // Tablet Mode
    setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);
} else {
    // Handset Mode
    setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);
}

Upvotes: 1

Machado
Machado

Reputation: 14499

Use setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT) to set it programatically;

You can get the screen dimensions like this this:

Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay();
Point size = new Point();
display.getSize(size);
int width = size.x;
int height = size.y;

If you're not in an Activity you can get the default Display via WINDOW_SERVICE:

WindowManager wm = (WindowManager) context.getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE);
Display display = wm.getDefaultDisplay();


Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay(); 
int width = display.getWidth();  // deprecated
int height = display.getHeight();  // deprecated

Before getSize was introduced (in API level 13), you could use the getWidth and getHeight methods that are now deprecated.

Upvotes: 0

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