android OS not accepting the landscape mode design on orintation changes

Question

My application having landscape and portrait mode. so I designed two layouts for each mode. In manifest file I set the below code.

android:configChanges="orientation"

it's working fine but the activity restarts on every orientation changes. so I add the following line to avoid the recreate issue.

android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"

Now the activity is not recreating but it also not taking the landscape mode design.

please help me to solve this issue friends

The activity recreation is intended to redraw with the proper layout, if you disable it, it will now draw your landscape layout. — Nanoc, Nov 23 '15 at 14:41
You should check this: http://stackoverflow.com/a/8093902/3743245 is older than Jesus — Mariano Zorrilla, Nov 23 '15 at 14:44
That's how orientation works: by recreating the Activity. If you disable it... you lose it. It appears quite obvious. Or isn't it? — Phantômaxx, Nov 23 '15 at 15:09

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 23 '15 at 15:24

I would recommend letting the Application recreate itself on orientation change.

If you need to preserve state then store information when onSaveInstanceState is called.

/**
 * On min or rotate save state info.
 *
 * @param bundle saved values
 */
public void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle bundle) {

    bundle.putBoolean("SomeKey", someKeyValue);
    super.onSaveInstanceState(bundle);
}

and then recover the values in onCreate

    if (savedInstanceState != null) {

        if (savedInstanceState.containsKey("SomeKey")) {
            someKeyValue=  
               savedInstanceState.getBoolean("SomeKey");
        }

    }

Using onConfigChanges: is a slippery slope that works well until it doesn't. Behavior varies and gets more complex with each OS release.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 29 '16 at 09:39

In my case my app work fine in both orientation here is what i doing may it help you,

use same code in public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { // your code } and public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) { // your code }

and in AndroidManifest file

use like

 <activity
        android:name="YourActivity"
        android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize"
        android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden" />

that's it. if any issue post your comment

android OS not accepting the landscape mode design on orintation changes

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