[android-developers] Re: Different orientations for different phones/tablets?

2012-07-27 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Of course. Check the screen size and lock the orientation for one or the other. On Friday, July 27, 2012 2:10:31 PM UTC+8, limtc wrote: Hi, Is it possible for an app to support one orientation (portrait) for phone but another orientation (landscape) for large form device like tablets?

[android-developers] Re: Different orientations for different phones/tablets?

2012-07-27 Thread limtc
Thanks for the help! All the examples I have seen so far asked me to put portrait or landscape in the activity. I will give this a try! If you know any examples on the net please let me know (I didn't find any). On Friday, July 27, 2012 3:06:44 PM UTC+8, Zsolt Vasvari wrote: Of course.

[android-developers] Re: Different orientations for different phones/tablets?

2012-07-27 Thread limtc
Thanks, this is what I am doing now. I wanted to support portrait/landscape modes for 1280x720/800 device, so this is what I do, sounds OK? So far my test seems to be fine, except sometimes it starts up upside down for some tablet devices. Is any of the dimension is not 1280 I will stick to

[android-developers] Re: Different orientations for different phones/tablets?

2012-07-27 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
You should be checking the DPI, not the absolute pixel count. I dont know about the upside down part. On Friday, July 27, 2012 3:49:42 PM UTC+8, limtc wrote: Thanks, this is what I am doing now. I wanted to support portrait/landscape modes for 1280x720/800 device, so this is what I do,

[android-developers] Re: Different orientations for different phones/tablets?

2012-07-27 Thread limtc
There are 2 issues that I have encountered so far with this approach: - on a Samsung tablet running Android 4, setting to portrait in code will ignore the current portrait orientation and show the device upside down (if I held it in one way with the logo on left). This does not happen if