Colin,

Yes.  My app is portrait only.   I selected "Portrait" as the Initial 
Orientation in the Standalone App Settings and I don't alter the orientation 
settings in code.  If you (or anyone else) has some advice, I'm all ears!!

-Dan


> I didn't know about that text file, but I do know about the issue. Generally 
> speaking Android phones are in a default orientation when portrait, and 
> generally speaking Android tablets are in a default orientation when 
> landscape. So, for LiveCode to really let you know what's going on you have 
> to help it know which way is default.
> 
> It does all look somewhat complicated. Are you making any assumptions in your 
> code about whether default is portrait or landscape?
> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> In an iOS project I have a button on the screen that when you tilt the 
>> device, it slides left or right.  Using the accelerationChanged message, 
>> this is easy.  However, now that I am trying to replicate this on Android, 
>> it's not working.  The "x" value retuned by accelerationChanged is all 
>> wrong!  I see a discussion in the Android Release Notes about this but I 
>> can't make any sense of what they are talking about:
>> 
>> "In order to correct orientation handling for this device, you must include 
>> a file named lc_device_config.txt in your APK bundle. Do this by adding the 
>> file in the Copy Files pane of the Standalone Builder. This file is used to 
>> map a device's to orientation to accelerometer value and is parsed by the 
>> Android engine on startup. If the current device matches an entry in the 
>> file, the orientation settings in that entry will be used."
>> 
>> Does anyone know what this means?  How to implement it? Or another way to 
>> deal with different devices having different 0 degree settings?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> -Dan

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