Orientation is global. The top-most app controls the orientation. If your app is not on the top, you can't force an orientation upon the app that is currently on top.
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you everybody for your insight. I'm still at something of a loss > here, I'm (literally) about to build a few robotic arms to accomplish > this, but before I do I would like to hear from someone explicitly > that this can not be done. > > I've attempted to launch an installed app which itself forces > orientation change programmatically, but that only affects the > orientation of that program instance, and the underlying orientation > remains unchanged, i.e. if you open a browser instance on top of it, > it retains the original orientation. > > The tests are by necessity comprised of some real-world material, and > would be invalidated if they were re-instantiated in a customized > form. Once again, thanks for those that have commented so far, > > Sincerely, > Morgan Kelly > > On Apr 17, 8:24 pm, Diego Torres Milano <[email protected]> wrote: > > Flip command in monkey is expected to work only in emulator and Dream > > (see MonkeyFlipEvent.java). > > > > On Apr 15, 4:56 pm, Bill Napier <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Then again, I just tried it with the Nexus S and it doesn't work. It > may > > > work on devices with keyboards like Droid. Here's how I tested it: > > > > > $ adb shell "monkey --port 9999" > > > $ adb forward tcp:9999 tcp:9999 > > > $ telnet localhost 9999 > > > Connected to localhost. > > > Escape character is '^]'. > > > flip open > > > OK > > > flip close > > > OK > > > > > And nothing happened on my phone. It may actually work on a device > that has > > > a flip out keyboard (G1 or droid for example), but I don't have one > handy. > > > > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Bill Napier <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > It looks like the "flip" command from the protocol that monkeyrunner > uses > > > > may do it for you. It looks like it never got added to MonkeyDevice > to be > > > > exposed as part of the monkeyrunner API. > > > > > > > http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/development.git;a=blob;f=cm... > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:26 AM, lbendlin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> Well, the monkey can do it (change orientation, that is) so you > might be > > > >> able to learn how to do it from the monkey source code. > > > > > >> -- > > > >> 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 > > > > > > -- > > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time > > > > to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on > > > > public forums, where I and others can see and answer them > > > > > -- > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time > > > to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on > > > public forums, where I and others can see and answer them > > -- > 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 > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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
