Can you draw a screen upside-down?

On Oct 8, 6:02 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry, there currently isn't any way to do this.  Even if you were to
> monitor the orientation yourself, there isn't a constant to set the screen
> to the alternative landscape orientation.  (Also trying to use the
> orientation listener for this would be very tricky since to do this
> correctly you need to know how to deal with screens that are landscape when
> not rotated etc.)
>
> A future version of the platform should have APIs to help with this.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:07 AM, neha <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have an application, that looks good in landscape orientation only
> > and i want to support both landscape-left and landscape-right
> > orientation.
>
> > If use setRequestedOrientation(SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE), my
> > application gets restricted to landscape-right orientation (home key
> > is in the right direction) and does not go to landscape-left
> > orientation on device rotation.
>
> > If use setRequestedOrientation(SCREEN_ORIENTATION_SENSOR), application
> > goes to both landscape-left and landscape-right orientation but the
> > problem is that it goes to portrait orientation also, on device
> > rotation.
>
> > Can somebody please highlight, how can both landscape-right and
> > landscape-left orientations be supported without moving to portrait
> > orientation? Are there are API to set the orientation to both
> > landscape-left and landscape right orientation or some mechanism to
> > prevent application from moving to portrait orientation when
> > setRequestedOrientation(SCREEN_ORIENTATION_SENSOR) is used.
>
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