Thanks Diane. I see my thinking was wrong. I thought that in the manifest, the designer can tell the OS that all of the activities are protrait and should never get notified of a change in orientation outside of your activity (except if implementing onConfigurationChanged). I was hoping to tackle all of the complexities of orientation changes at a later date, since the app itself is pretty complex already :-).
Just curious, I notice that if the user is in my app and the user hits the home button, Android stays in the orientation the app was in. Then, when the user turns the device, the orientation changes, but my sleeping app does not go through the onDestroy()/onCreate() change configuration callbacks. Why would it not be similar, when the device is going to sleep? I.e., put the app to sleep, change configuration if it wants to (but don't do the callbacks, since the app specifically said it does not support landscape), and when it returns from sleep, discover that the app is portrait only so change to portrait and restart app? So, just to be sure I understand, there is really no safe way to create an app that does not handle both orientations? Kim On Feb 14, 1:46 am, ko5tik <kpriblo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Feb 14, 6:09 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > > > This isn't specific to the dell streak. In the standard platform, the lock > > screen forces the orientation to portrait, so when going to sleep if the > > screen is landscape then it will get changed to portrait. As always, an app > > should handle being destroyed and recreated. > > My application (now in beta) does this, bit it is being recreated > with portrait > mode - so all the code recomputing screen coordinates in camera > coordinates > goes haywire. Not sure how to tackle this... > > (This happens on motorola defy) > > regards, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
