Thank you for the response. By default the window gets rotated to 0, 90 and 270 in Froyo. Does that mean that the setRequestedOrientation call to freeze the screen from rotating in reverse landscape mode or right-landscape or 270 degree is not supported in Froyo.
On Mar 3, 4:12 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > APIs for this were introduced in Gingerbread; there is no support for it in > Froyo. > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Soumya <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > Generally if you launch an application in Android Froyo, then your > > application can switch to 0, 90 and 270 orientation when you rotate > > the device. Now I am making an application which when launched in the > > last mode of orientation should remain in that orientation. For > > example, if user launches my application in portrait mode then it > > should remain in portrait mode even if the device is rotated. > > > For this I am using the setRequstedOrientation call, but when I am > > launching the application in landscape(270) mode, it automatically > > gets switched to landscape (90) mode. After some search I came to know > > that landscape (270) is not supported by setRequestedOrientation call > > in Android. > > > Can anyone tell me what can be done and whether there is any > > workaround to obtain such requirement. > > > Thank you, > > Soumya > > > -- > > unsubscribe: [email protected] > > website:http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
