Prevent screen rotation on Android

android rotation screen
Sephy picture Sephy · Apr 28, 2010 · Viewed 226k times · Source

I have one of my activities which I would like to prevent from rotating because I'm starting an AsyncTask, and screen rotation makes it restart.

Is there a way to tell this activity "DO NOT ROTATE the screen even if the user is shaking his phone like mad"?

Answer

lbedogni picture lbedogni · Apr 28, 2010

Add 

android:screenOrientation="portrait"

or

 android:screenOrientation="landscape"

to the <activity> element/s in the manifest and you're done.

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