Setting this android:screenOrientation="sensor" as mentioned above worked perfect.. it switched the view as the phone changed.
I then only created alternate XML files for the layouts that needed tweaking and it worked like a charm. On Oct 24, 2:24 pm, ksmith44 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a followup, I have now found at least 3 ways do determine the > orientation, all of which use different constants with different > values. > > * There is the aforementioned Activity.getRequestedOrientation which > uses the ActivityInfo constants wherein landscape=0 and portrait=1 > * Then there is getResources().getConfiguration().orientation which > uses the Configuration constants wherein landscape=2 and portrait=1 > * Then there is > getWindow().getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getOrientation(). > I am not sure what constants this is using, but it returns exactly the > opposite of the first: landscape=1 and portrait=0 > > There are probably more. Does anyone know the correct or preferred > method? > > On Oct 23, 12:40 pm, ksmith44 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How can you determine the current orientation? Most of my pages > > rotate just fine, but I have one page on which I actually need to do > > slightly different logic based on the orientation (specifically, I > > want to add additional menu options in landscape mode). When I use > > getRequestedOrientation(), I always get back a -1 (UNSPECIFIED). It > > appears as if this method only works if an orientation has been > > requested by the code using setRequestedOrientation. Is there a > > better way to determine the current orientation? > > > BTW, thanks hackbod for the gem about ctrl-F12. I never found that in > > the documentation and had been changing the android:screenOrientation > > var in my manifest file and restarting every time I wanted to test in > > the alternate orientation. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
