Screen orientation settings in android app

Question

I would like to create orientation setting in my application ("Portrait", "Landscape", "Auto").

I created this option in my settings activity, but i don't know how to set this orientation settings to my application (or activity) programatically at runtime.

In my activity in onCreate() I tried:

    sharedPrefSettings = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);

    switch (sharedPrefSettings.getString(SettingsActivity.KEY_PREF_SCREEN_ORIENTATION, "0")) {
        case "0":
            setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_UNSPECIFIED);

            break;
        case "1":
            setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);

            break;
        case "2":
            setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);

            break;
    }

but it bad working:

Activity is not rotate immediately when settings are changed (i must recreate activity to apply changes)

When app is first opened, activity is in default (system) orientation, and after about second it recreates with orientation from my settings.

Check this Out:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5726657/how-to-detect-orientation-change-in-layout-in-android — VegeOSplash, Aug 04 '14 at 11:08

Xaver Kapeller · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-04T11:33:10.440

From the documentation of setRequestedOrientation:

public void setRequestedOrientation (int requestedOrientation)

Change the desired orientation of this activity. If the activity is currently in the foreground or otherwise impacting the screen orientation, the screen will immediately be changed (possibly causing the activity to be restarted). Otherwise, this will be used the next time the activity is visible.

So it should work as you describe, I just tested it and I don't run into any problems or errors. The error must be somewhere else.

The error could also be here:

switch (sharedPrefSettings.getString(SettingsActivity.KEY_PREF_SCREEN_ORIENTATION, "0")) {
    case "0":
        setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_UNSPECIFIED);

        break;
    case "1":
        setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);

        break;
    case "2":
        setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);

        break;
}

You are using switch on a String. Until recently that was not supported in Android. Either you have to be sure that your language level is set to 1.7 or you can use Integers or if statements instead:

switch (sharedPrefSettings.getInt(SettingsActivity.KEY_PREF_SCREEN_ORIENTATION, -1)) {

    case 1:
        setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);
        break;

    case 2:
        setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);
        break;

    default:
        setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_UNSPECIFIED);
        break;
}

Also you can use default like I just did to create a safer and more general logic.

The error could also possibly be here:

sharedPrefSettings = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);

getDefaultSharedPreferences() is potentially dangerous and you should avoid using this instead create your SharedPreferences explicitly like this:

sharedPrefSettings = getSharedPreferences("settings", MODE_PRIVATE);

So in the end when all mistakes are fixed your code should look like this:

sharedPrefSettings = getSharedPreferences("settings", MODE_PRIVATE);

switch (sharedPrefSettings.getInt(SettingsActivity.KEY_PREF_SCREEN_ORIENTATION, -1)) {

    case 1:
        setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);
        break;

    case 2:
        setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);
        break;

    default:
        setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_UNSPECIFIED);
        break;
}

Just FYI: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14367629/android-coding-with-switch-string/19722741#19722741 — Mike M., Aug 04 '14 at 11:28

Screen orientation settings in android app

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