That's probably because they don't have a customized system image, so they just specified width=800 height=480 yet the default system image boots in portrait mode.
To do the right thing they'd have to provide an addon with a custom system image that has the proper status bar and sets the initial orientation to landscape. R/ On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Al Sutton<[email protected]> wrote: > > Xav, > > If you use the NotepadV1 source (from the notepad tutorial - > http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/notepad/index.html), and run it > you get what I'd expect to be landscape mode (i.e. the mode the device boots > in which is 800 wide by 480 tall). > > If you add android:screenOrientation="landscape" to the notepad activity and > re-run it you get what I would expect to be portrait mode for the device > (i.e. screen rotated 90 degrees to it's 480 wide by 800 tall). > > What seems to be happening is that although the boot mode appears to be > landscape (width > height) it's actually registered as portrait mode (height > > width), so when an app specifically asks for landscape more it gets the > rotated. > > Given the resolution I doubt it's going to be a big problem for many apps, > but it's just something that I was curious about when I saw the default > layout. > > Al. > > > -- > > * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * > > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Xavier Ducrohet > Sent: 16 August 2009 00:48 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [android-discuss] Re: App Market Community is expanding > > > I just tried it again and it looks ok to me. > It does boot in landscape which is unusual but when resolving an app > resource that uses orientation, it looks ok to me. > Home is also behaving correctly with the app drawer on the side in landscape. > > Xav > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Al Sutton<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On other thing. I've just been playing with the screen orientation and >> noticed something that looks weird. If you specify Landscape you get what I >> would have thought of as the portrait mode (i.e. short wide by long tall), >> and vice versa. >> >> Does anyone know if this is right?, because I can see it causing some >> compatibility issues if it is. >> >> Al. >> >> -- >> >> * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * >> >> ====== >> Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the >> company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, >> 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. >> >> The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not >> necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's >> subsidiaries. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Xavier Ducrohet >> Sent: 14 August 2009 23:51 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [android-discuss] Re: App Market Community is expanding >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Mark Murphy<[email protected]> wrote: >>> But some stuff doesn't seem fully baked yet. They talk about a 48px "TOP >>> menu", which would appear to be the Android status bar from the diagram. >>> But the emulator skin they supply only gives us the 25px status bar, >>> like any other skin. Makes me wonder if there are any other hiccups we >>> need to worry about, at least in terms of the emulator skin matching the >>> hardware. It'd suck to build your app one way aiming for their device, >>> upload it, and then find out it still isn't right. >> >> That because the skin is only just a screen size def (800x480 in this >> case), with some background drawn around in the emulator window. >> >> To have their custom status bar, they would have to ship a real SDK >> add-on, which would include both an emulator system image and the >> skin. >> I'm guessing they aren't ready to ship the former. >> >> I hope they do plan to ship an SDK add-on, as it would be the best for >> developers wishing to target this device. >> >> Xav >> -- >> Xavier Ducrohet >> Android Developer Tools Engineer >> Google Inc. >> >> >> >> > >> > > > > -- > Xavier Ducrohet > Android Developer Tools Engineer > Google Inc. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
