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Habeeb Rahman
Habeeb Rahman

Reputation: 405

How to restrict screen orientation to portrait in Android SDK 27

I have tried

android:screenOrientation="portrait"

and

setRequestedOrientation (ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);

but it is crashing the app, Is there any alternative method for this to work in Android 8.0.0+?

Logcat:

FATAL EXCEPTION: main
  Process: in.ajtech.finX, PID: 15077
  java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{in.ajtech.finX/in.ajtech.finX.CalendarActivity}: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Only fullscreen activities can request orientation
      at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2817)
      at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2892)
      at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap11(Unknown Source:0)
      at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1593)
      at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:105)
      at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164)
      at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6541)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
      at com.android.internal.os.Zygote$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(Zygote.java:240)
      at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:767)
   Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Only fullscreen activities can request orientation
      at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1950)
      at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1888)
      at android.app.IActivityManager$Stub$Proxy.setRequestedOrientation(IActivityManager.java:5675)
      at android.app.Activity.setRequestedOrientation(Activity.java:5739)
      at in.ajtech.finX.CalendarActivity.onCreate(CalendarActivity.java:55)
      at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:6975)
      at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1213)
      at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2770)
      at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2892) 
      at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap11(Unknown Source:0) 
      at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1593) 
      at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:105) 
      at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164) 
      at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6541) 
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3213

Answers (6)

Mojtaba
Mojtaba

Reputation: 215

I got the same error, when I tried to open activity as dialog inside another activity. then I removed android:screenOrientation="portrait" from dialog activity deceleration in my Manifest, and problem solved! this is because the parent activity should be responsible for the orientation.

Upvotes: 0

Gordon developer
Gordon developer

Reputation: 417

You can set the property from you manifest file, inside each activity, add android:screenOrientation="portrait"

Upvotes: 0

Babken Vardanyan
Babken Vardanyan

Reputation: 15050

In AndroidManifest.xml make the following changes:

  1. For opaque activities, i.e. full-screen, set:

    android:screenOrientation="portrait"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar"

    Note that the theme should be NOT Translucent.

  2. For transclusent activities, i.e. pop-up dialogs etc, set:

    android:screenOrientation="unspecified"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar"

    Note that screenOrientation is not specified here. You can use Translucent themes.

This works without downgrading SDK version.

Upvotes: 1

IntelliJ Amiya
IntelliJ Amiya

Reputation: 75788

BUG

Read Only fullscreen activities can request orientation

Only fullscreen activities can request orientation at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity

You should use AppCompatActivity instead of Activity.

let your activity extend AppCompatActivity.

JAVA

public class YourActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
  // ...
}

Kotlin

class  YourActivity : AppCompatActivity()

FYI

Beginning with Android 3.0 (API level 11), all activities that use the default theme have an ActionBar as an app bar. However, app bar features have gradually been added to the native ActionBar over various Android releases. As a result, the native ActionBar behaves differently depending on what version of the Android system a device may be using. By contrast, the most recent features are added to the support library's version of Toolbar, and they are available on any device that can use the support library.

From Setting Up the App Bar.

DEMO

Set your style

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">

</style>

Upvotes: 4

Habeeb Rahman
Habeeb Rahman

Reputation: 405

Repacing extents Activity to AppCompatActivity fixed the issue. Thank you for all your help

Upvotes: 0

Rajasekaran M
Rajasekaran M

Reputation: 2538

It's android sdk(27) issue , you can't use portrait with Translucent so reduce your target sdk to 26 or remove Translucent theme or remove portrait mode.

Upvotes: 1

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