Dianne, thanks for the response - you're probably right, I should just bite the bullet.
I'd like to vent a little though about what a hassle it is to deal with orientation changes. It must be the #1 source of bugs in the apps that I've come across (including my own apps). iOS does a lot of things wrong, but it makes orientation changes so much easier than Android. I still haven't found a way to preserve the state of an activity that launches another dialog style activity that gets an orientation change - I end up shoving everything in the db or passing the state data to the dialog class. I'm no guru so I'm probably doing something wrong there, but I wish to God that we could go back in time and come up with a better way to deal with orientation changes that didn't involve killing and reconstructing the entire activity! Ok, done w/the vent. Having said all that I still enjoy programming for Android more than Apple even though I sell a lot more apps on the App Store vs the Market :-) Brad On Jul 16, 8:53 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > Those are two different orientations. > > The Configuration > constants:http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Configurat... > > The constants for > set/getRequestedOrientation():http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/ActivityInf... > > Beyond that, I would strongly recommend not doing what you are trying to do. > This would result in a UI flow that is very counter to what the user > expects -- that either an app is going to run in a particular orientation, > or allow them to rotate their screen as they would elsewhere. Ending up > locked into whatever orientation they happened to launch the app in is just > not how things should work. > > Besides which, there are all kinds of edge cases you'll never get right -- > for example what happens if they press home to leave your app, rotate their > device, and then task switch back to your app? Or as another poster > mention, if you lock the screen into portrait like this and they flip the > lid on their keyboard the orientation won't change to landscape, which is > not what they are going to want. > > You really, really just need to code your activity correctly to be able to > destroy and re-create the activity. > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Brad <bradfull...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > I'm trying to lock my activity to the current orientation to prevent > > an orientation change from restarting my activity while I'm waiting > > for a http response. > > > So I'm trying to use this: > > > setRequestedOrientation(getResources().getConfiguration().orientation); > > > And it works fine for portrait (orientation == 1), but when the device > > is in landscape it's getting a value of 2 which == > > > ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_USER > > > And this doesn't lock the screen. > > > Does anyone have any idea why I'm getting this instead of LANDSCAPE? > > Any suggestions for a better way to lock the current orientation? > > > Thanks! > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
