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Sunil Kumar Sahoo
Sunil Kumar Sahoo

Reputation: 53657

How to make an application to run in portrait mode only

In my application If i want to restrict an activity to work in portrait mode only then i have to write android:screenOrientation="portrait" in the manifest file against activity tag. If I want to force all activity to work in portrait mode then I have to write the same in all activity. Is there any application-wise setting so that I need not have to write this in all activities. How to make an application to run in portrait mode only

I am using the following now

        <activity
        android:screenOrientation="portrait"
        android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"
        android:name=".MyActivity"></activity>

Upvotes: 18

Views: 20299

Answers (8)

Shivanand Darur
Shivanand Darur

Reputation: 3224

Recommended way is to use the tag for all activities in manifest. But, if any1 wants laziest approach you can use following code.

In onCreate() of your Application class, include the following code.

registerActivityLifecycleCallbacks(new ActivityLifecycleAdapter() {
        @Override
        public void onActivityCreated(Activity activity, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
                activity.setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);
            }
    }

Upvotes: 0

android_softy
android_softy

Reputation: 139

HI use this code android:screenOrientation="portrait" I don't think that there would be another way for this type reuirement

Upvotes: 1

Bilal Shahid
Bilal Shahid

Reputation: 490

<activity android:name=".exampleActivity"
android:configChanges="orientation"
android:screenOrientation="portrait"/>

Upvotes: 1

samer alameer
samer alameer

Reputation: 27

You can support Landscape mode on activity that involve text entry where using a physical keyboard might be required and keeping the rest of your app in portrait mode.

Upvotes: 0

inazaruk
inazaruk

Reputation: 74780

There is no way to set application-wide orientation. But there is one interesting value called behind:

android:screenOrientation="behind"

But you still need to apply it for each activity. So its better to just stick with portrait in your case.

Also note that you need to have very good reasons to restrict orientation in your app. In general this is considered a bad practice and may frustrate quite a lot of users.

Upvotes: 2

Sunit Kumar Gupta
Sunit Kumar Gupta

Reputation: 1213

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

use these line inside your application tag.

it may help you or use this line android:screenOrientation="portrait" with each activity.

Upvotes: -2

Brian Beckett
Brian Beckett

Reputation: 4900

I'm afraid that I can't answer your question but I need to write a response anyway.

I'm sure that you're writing the greatest app ever and that there is some awesome reason why it should be locked to portrait mode only. But have you considered phones with slide-out keyboards? If your app involves text entry then anyone with a full qwerty keyboard phone (e.g. Droid/Milestone 1/2, G1, etc) is going to be rotating their phone, sliding out the keyboard and discovering to their horror that the app hasn't rotated with them.

Something to think about. Good luck with your problem and with your app!

Upvotes: 10

evilone
evilone

Reputation: 22740

Only way is to add android:screenOrientation="portrait" for each activity.

Upvotes: 45

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