Is it possible simple to detect current orientation of android device, without programming a listener and handling the position matrix? In my app I want only to know current orientation - vertical or horizontal - at the moment. However I don't want to listen to events of axiometry or other events.
Use the getRotation
method:
Display display = ((WindowManager) context.getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE)).getDefaultDisplay();
int rotation = display.getRotation();
From the documentation:
Returns the rotation of the screen from its "natural" orientation. The returned value may be
Surface.ROTATION_0
(no rotation),Surface.ROTATION_90
,Surface.ROTATION_180
, orSurface.ROTATION_270
. For example, if a device has a naturally tall screen, and the user has turned it on its side to go into a landscape orientation, the value returned here may be eitherSurface.ROTATION_90
orSurface.ROTATION_270
depending on the direction it was turned. The angle is the rotation of the drawn graphics on the screen, which is the opposite direction of the physical rotation of the device. For example, if the device is rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise, to compensate rendering will be rotated by 90 degrees clockwise and thus the returned value here will beSurface.ROTATION_90
.
Keep in mind that getRotation
was introduced from Android 2.2. Use getOrientation
if your target are older devices.