How to start a foreign Activity/Application with a specific orientation?

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Starting a foreigin Activity/Application is quite easy.

Intent intentHandle = this.getPackageManager().getLaunchIntentForPackage("com.android.browser");

this.startActivity(intentHandle);

But is there any possibility to specify the orientation, the foreign Activity/Application is forced to use?

This is (probably) possible as I see apps like this one (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.coinsoft.android.orientcontrol , I think this is what you want). I doubt there are any public APIs to do this at the SDK level, other possibilities would be to build your own android version or use reflection to access undocumented internal APIs. — user, Aug 06 '12 at 18:21

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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Yes, you can specify the orientation for the activity in the manifest.

Force an Android activity to always use landscape mode

edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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answered Aug 06 '12 at 17:47

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It looks like he's attempting to start an activity that's not in his own package. – wsanville Aug 06 '12 at 17:50

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 06 '12 at 17:50

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This depends on the source code of the application. To my knowledge, this is not possible. As Each application can handle orientation change differently or just not do it at all.

answered Aug 06 '12 at 17:50

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How to start a foreign Activity/Application with a specific orientation?

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