I wouldn't suggest putting it in a Service unless it is really something you want to have executing when the user is outside of your app.
For example, a browser typically wouldn't associate a Service with networking, because all of its networking is there to serve the UI. On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Indicator Veritatis <mej1...@yahoo.com>wrote: > What? Why would a restart of your Activity be a problem while waiting > for an HTTP response? You DO have the HTTP response in a separate > thread and Service, don't you? > > On Jul 16, 3:41 pm, Brad <bradfull...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to lock my activity to the current orientation to prevent > > an orientation change from restarting my activity while I'm waiting > > for a http response. > > > > So I'm trying to use this: > > > > setRequestedOrientation(getResources().getConfiguration().orientation); > > > > And it works fine for portrait (orientation == 1), but when the device > > is in landscape it's getting a value of 2 which == > > > > ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_USER > > > > And this doesn't lock the screen. > > > > Does anyone have any idea why I'm getting this instead of LANDSCAPE? > > Any suggestions for a better way to lock the current orientation? > > > > Thanks! > > -- > 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 > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com 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 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
