Run the application in Landscape mode only?

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Praveenkumar picture Praveenkumar · Sep 23, 2011 · Viewed 29k times · Source

I want to run a Hello World sample application only in landscape mode on my Device.

If the device changed to portrait, I would then like to raise one toaster. For example "please change to landscape mode to run your application".

How should I do this?

Answer

Android Killer picture Android Killer · Sep 23, 2011

You can go for both programmatically as follows:

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);

or also in manifest file you can give here as 

<activity android:name=".YourActivity"  android:screenOrientation="landscape" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"/>

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