I also need it for the same reasons and unable to find a workaround. I also notice similar behavior if switched between portrait and portrait inverted, the onConfigurationChanged() is not called.
On Mar 29, 2:21 am, Mark Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > In my case, I need to for the camera (otherwise the image will appear > upside down). > > Some apps (like Paper Camera) get around this by not allowing the screen to > rotate, and so the SurfaceView (used by the Camera) is more like a window > (through the device). > > At risk of this post going off on a tangent, the "window" strategy makes > sense. In other words, when the user rotates the screen, leave the > SurfaceView as it is and only reposition/redraw the controls. I imagine > this is quite hard (because you would be effectively drawing the controls > upside down), and so not worth the effort. > > Other reasons for caring about which side the screen is up, include > anything that uses the orientation sensor, such as games. > > > > > > > > On Thursday, March 29, 2012 2:06:51 PM UTC+8, Zsolt Vasvari wrote: > > > Just curious, why do you care which side of the screen is up? > > > On Thursday, March 29, 2012 9:57:14 AM UTC+8, Mark Carter wrote: > > >> I've seen a few other questions similar to this but no answers. > > >> Rotating from portrait to landscape (either direction) and back again, we > >> get the helpful call to onConfigurationChanged(). > > >> However, when rotating from landscape to landscape (through 180 degrees) > >> onConfigurationChanged() is not called. > > >> I've seen mention of using OrientationEventListener but this seems flakey > >> to me because you can rotate quickly around without triggering a display > >> orientation change. > > >> I've tried adding a layout change listener, but with no success. > > >> So the question is, how to reliably detect such a change in landscape > >> orientation? > > >> Note: I also posted this on SO: > >>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9909037/how-to-detect-screen-rotat... -- 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
