how to force landscape mode for dialog?

Question

imagine your activity is (forced!) in portrait mode and you'll show an dialog from there, but in landscape mode (because it's containing view is larger than screen width), how will you do that?

I think the screen-orientation of a dialog depends on it's hosting activity/service.

Is there still a way? (e.g. force default orientation of dialog view over it's layout xml-file?)

Please read my question again. My activity is already in portrait mode. What I do need is to have a dialog, started from that activity, but in landscape mode... — user1480734, Oct 02 '12 at 10:01
i guess you need to first put your activity in landscape (what's the relation with the xml layout file?) — njzk2, Oct 02 '12 at 10:08
That's the problem. The layout in my activity is strongly designed for portrait mode, so I can't switch. Another idea was to pre-define the screenOrientation in dialog-views xml layout file, but it doesn't work. — user1480734, Oct 02 '12 at 10:47
how do you define the screenOrientation in an xml layout file ? — njzk2, Oct 02 '12 at 12:03

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 27 '17 at 08:24

If you are under DialogFragment Use on dialog create getActivity().setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE); and on dialog dissmiss getActivity().setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_UNSPECIFIED); if you don't want activity recreate add also android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize" other way you will have to handle activity being recreated

how to force landscape mode for dialog?

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