[android-developers] Re: Careful, Dell Streak 7 ignores manifest setting for Orientation

2011-02-14 Thread ko5tik
On Feb 14, 6:09 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: This isn't specific to the dell streak.  In the standard platform, the lock screen forces the orientation to portrait, so when going to sleep if the screen is landscape then it will get changed to portrait.  As always, an app

[android-developers] Re: Careful, Dell Streak 7 ignores manifest setting for Orientation

2011-02-14 Thread Kim
Thanks Diane. I see my thinking was wrong. I thought that in the manifest, the designer can tell the OS that all of the activities are protrait and should never get notified of a change in orientation outside of your activity (except if implementing onConfigurationChanged). I was hoping to tackle

Re: [android-developers] Re: Careful, Dell Streak 7 ignores manifest setting for Orientation

2011-02-14 Thread Pepijn Van Eeckhoudt
Adding android:configChanges=orientation to activities that handle orientation changes themselves should do the trick. Of couse, it becomes your own responsibility to handle the config change properly then... Pepijn On 14/02/2011 17:13, Kim wrote: Thanks Diane. I see my thinking was wrong. I

Re: [android-developers] Re: Careful, Dell Streak 7 ignores manifest setting for Orientation

2011-02-14 Thread Dianne Hackborn
You just need to deal with being restarted due to a configuration change. Note that even if you force an orientation, this can still happen due to the user opening a keyboard, changing the locale, and for many other reasons. It is true that even if you specify a particular orientation, you may

[android-developers] Re: Careful, Dell Streak 7 ignores manifest setting for Orientation

2011-02-13 Thread Stephen Lebed
Hi Kim, I've started a thread to list problems with devices. Please consider adding your experience to the list. http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/501b5195e0cbc3e2 On Feb 13, 8:22 am, Kim kimknap...@gmail.com wrote: I have found tht when the Streak 7

[android-developers] Re: Careful, Dell Streak 7 ignores manifest setting for Orientation

2011-02-13 Thread Kim
Good idea! I will! On Feb 13, 5:14 pm, Stephen Lebed srle...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kim, I've started a thread to list problems with devices.  Please consider adding your experience to the list. http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... On Feb 13, 8:22 am, Kim