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Pierre
Pierre

Reputation: 19081

App crashes on Tablet rotate, during development phase

I am developing a web-based Android application using PhoneGap and Eclipse IDE on Windows.
My development's scope is limited to Tablets. More specifically to the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.

So basically, I develop on Eclipse, and test the app on the Tablet using Eclipse's Run command.

Everything works great until i rotate the Tablet. The app crashes.
Therefore I cannot test my CSS media queries during this dev phase.

Is there a way to circumvent or fix this behavior ?
(other than testing the app in Portrait mode, then close it to test it in landscape mode)

Note: Using the Android Emulator on Windows is NOT an option.

Phonegap 1.4
Android 3.2
Eclipse IDE for JavaScript Web Developers ( Indigo Service Release 1 )

Here is my app's Log, starting from the moment i rotate the Tablet.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 547

Answers (3)

dijipiji
dijipiji

Reputation: 3099

And ensure you're building on at least an 4.0 Android SDK otherwise "screenSize" will flag as an error!

Upvotes: 0

Martinez
Martinez

Reputation: 484

I am wondering what your manifest file looks like. Of the manifest is not your problem, its probably in the assets either your css or js

Do you have: android:resizeable="true"

Here is the relevant parts of my manifest that may help:

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
    <activity android:name="com.phonegap.DroidGap" android:label="@string/app_name" 
              android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden">
        <intent-filter>
        </intent-filter>

I hope this helps...

Upvotes: 0

Simon MacDonald
Simon MacDonald

Reputation: 23273

Try adding this:

android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize|keyboardHidden"

as your config change parameter in your apps AndroidManifest.xml to see if it fixes your issue.

I have a Samsung Tab 10.1 and if you don't have the proper configuration changes setup in your manifest your whole app will be reloaded on conf change.

Upvotes: 2

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