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Sebastien FERRAND
Sebastien FERRAND

Reputation: 2150

Android force orientation one way only

I know this : 

android:screenOrientation="landscape"

But depending on which orientation you open the app, the way changes (even if it's landscape, there're 2 ways).

How can I force an app to open one way?

For clarity sake, I really want the volume button at the bottom of the tablet only.

Though I know it changes depending on which constructor I'm building my app for a single device, so I wonder if that is possible.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2713

Answers (5)

Bro
Bro

Reputation: 53

You can also add to manifest file this option: android:screenOrientation="portrait"

or

android:screenOrientation="landscape"

Upvotes: 0

Nika Kurdadze
Nika Kurdadze

Reputation: 2512

You can just lock the landscape orientation this way :

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);

Or if you want the reversed landscape orientation : 

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_REVERSE_LANDSCAPE);

Upvotes: 2

Benjamin Ting
Benjamin Ting

Reputation: 709

I believe you can find what you need here: activity | Android Developer #android:screenOrientation

There are more options than landscape and portrait, I believe the ones helpful to you would be "reverseLandscape" and "sensorLandscape". Since the volume button differs from tablet to tablet, you may want to use "sensorLandscape" and ask the user turn their tablet to such orientation, just a suggestion.

Edit: Just saw you said you are building for one device, I guess "reverseLandscape" will do just fine.

Upvotes: 1

BrnPer
BrnPer

Reputation: 21

Don't forget to put in the manifest file where the activity is defined!!! Best regards

Upvotes: 1

Michele Lacorte
Michele Lacorte

Reputation: 5363

Try with this in onCreate() method of Activity

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);

Upvotes: 3

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