How about an additional activity without the orientation lock between the locked main one (in your app) and the purchase activity (displayed by Market).
You could then use it to display some kind of help text, describing the purchase, and how it's going to improve the application - which to me seems like a useful thing to have. -- Kostya 2011/9/29 Speedy Lope <[email protected]> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Nikolay Elenkov < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Speedy <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm building application on SKD 11+ (Android 3.x) and when I'm doing >> > in-app billing request the checkout popup is always displaying in >> > landscape mode - causing that my whole app rotates to landscape mode >> > even though the app is locked to portrait. >> >> Don't lock you app to portrait, or at least don't lock the activity >> responsible >> for purchases. >> > > Yes, the activity (not the app) is locked to portrait as it is simply not > supposed to be in landscape. I think I will have to fake it somehow > (covering the content by some fullscreen view as a background for purchase > interface). > > >> > >> > Is there any way to display purchase popup in portrait mode on >> > Honeycomb? >> >> Not that I know of. You get a PendingIntent from the Market app >> and you have to launch that, I don't think you can customize it. >> > > This sounds pretty stupid to me that Google is forcing landscape mode to > the app and users. > > Thank you for your reply anyway :) > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
