Yes, I was thinking about the same, but the client is not very happy about it :( This is the point when it's really hard to defend Google's approach when talking to my client. Anyway, thanks to all for the ideas. I think it's pretty clear that Android Market is simply forcing landscape mode no matter what, which is imo silly.
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Kostya Vasilyev <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > -- 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
