It can be pretty irritating when you have a mixture of screens that should be only be appearing in a Potrait or a Landscape orientation only. Therefore here's a quick demo to show you how you can take control of the orientation of your Android App.
Here's the source code of the Main Activity of the Android Application - MainActivity.java
package com.nekyoutoTech.controloverorientation;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.pm.ActivityInfo;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.ImageButton;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
//Dummy Array of Buttons
private Button[] btns = new Button[5];
//Stores a reference of the Application Context
private static Context context;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
//Loop through the buttons and assign the Click Listener to them
for(int i = 0; i < 5; i ++){
int resID = getResources().getIdentifier("btn" + i, "id", getPackageName());
btns[i] = (Button) findViewById(resID);
btns[i].setOnClickListener(btnClickListener);
}
context = this.getApplicationContext();
}
/**
* Upon clicking on any of the buttons
*/
OnClickListener btnClickListener = new OnClickListener(){
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
//Get the String of the button first
Button btn = (Button) v;
String text = (String) btn.getText();
//Depending on the button that was click, let's select the orientation
//that we would want to set for the app.
int orientation;
if (context.getResources().getString(R.string.btn0Str).equals(text)) {
orientation = ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_SENSOR;
} else if (context.getResources().getString(R.string.btn1Str).equals(text)) {
orientation = ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT;
} else if (context.getResources().getString(R.string.btn2Str).equals(text)) {
orientation = ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE;
} else if (context.getResources().getString(R.string.btn3Str).equals(text)) {
orientation = ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_REVERSE_PORTRAIT;
} else if (context.getResources().getString(R.string.btn4Str).equals(text)) {
orientation = ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_REVERSE_LANDSCAPE;
} else {
orientation = ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_SENSOR;
}
//Let's set the orientation of the app now.
setRequestedOrientation(orientation);
}
};
}
* Click here for the source files of the project.
