Change screen orientation in Android without reloading the activity

android screen-orientation
luisfer picture luisfer · Feb 14, 2013 · Viewed 42.8k times · Source

I want to change the orientation programmatically while running my Android App, with these lines of code:

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);  
setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_SENSOR_LANDSCAPE);

They work so far, but the main problem is that the whole activity is reloaded when the screen orientation changes, and I don't want that. Is it possible? Thanks.

EDIT: OK, after I while I found out what I was missing. I had to include also "screenSize" in the configChanges property, so having

android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize"

solved the whole thing.

Answer

larham1 picture larham1 · Jul 23, 2013

See the edit by @luisfer. For targeting Android 3.2 and above, you need BOTH

android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize"

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/runtime-changes.html#HandlingTheChange

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