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Praveenkumar
Praveenkumar

Reputation: 24476

Run the application in Landscape mode only?

I want to run a Hello World sample application only in landscape mode on my Device.

If the device changed to portrait, I would then like to raise one toaster. For example "please change to landscape mode to run your application".

How should I do this?

Upvotes: 18

Views: 30754

Answers (5)

Jaya Mayu
Jaya Mayu

Reputation: 17247

You may try something like this

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

Log.v("log_tag", "display width is "+ width);
Log.v("log_tag", "display height is "+ height);

if(width<height){
    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Device is in portrait mode",Toast.LENGTH_LONG ).show();
} else {
    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Device is in landscape  mode",Toast.LENGTH_LONG ).show();
}

Upvotes: 1

Android Killer
Android Killer

Reputation: 18489

You can go for both programmatically as follows:

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);

or also in manifest file you can give here as 

<activity android:name=".YourActivity"  android:screenOrientation="landscape" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"/>

Upvotes: 48

Lukas Knuth
Lukas Knuth

Reputation: 25755

You can use the configChanges-attribute for the Activity you want to catch the screen-orientation change for.

After that, the onConfigurationChanged()-method in your Activity will be called when the orientation changes.

To check which orientation is currently displayed, check this older post: Check orientation on Android phone

After that, you can show off your message or do whatever you like (of course you can also set it to only show in landscape).

Upvotes: 0

Bugs bunny
Bugs bunny

Reputation: 163

in your Manifestfile(xml)

<activity android:name=".ActivityName" android:screenOrientation="landscape">
    </activity>

refer this also Is that possible to check was onCreate called because of orientation change?

Upvotes: 3

Vineet Shukla
Vineet Shukla

Reputation: 24021

add this to your activity tag in your manifest file:

android:screenOrientation="landscape"

It will fix your orientation to landscape mode and you need not to show any toast to user.

Upvotes: 8

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