On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:25 AM, RLScott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 10, 6:50 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: >> HDMI out, if it supported by the device, is transparent to the app >> developer... > > Not entirely transparent. The HDMI, when connected, usually override > the sensor-determined screen orientation to force landscape - unless > the activity is specified as portrait in the manifest. So sometimes > the developer does need to be aware of when HDMI is connected. In our > case the presence of HDMI even made the difference between an activity > staying in memory and going through its full destroy-create life cycle > when it was covered up by another activity. This exposed some bugs in > our code where we were not properly handling those transitions. Of > course we needed to fix those bugs anyway.
Sorry -- I meant more that there were no APIs for you to control where your content was displayed. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 3.8 Available! -- 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
