Detect when user is trying to rotate screen

Asked Feb 23 '16 at 15:18

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Basically I have Activity, which contains this line in the manifest:

android:screenOrientation="sensorPortrait"

So I can't rotate it and it's always in a portrait mode.

The issue is that I need to detect whenever user is trying to rotate the screen. I've already watched questions like : Remove orientation restricitons programmatically , How to detect orientation change in layout in Android? and so on.

By now I know that to do it you need t override this method:

@Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig)

And, in my case to use

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_UNSPECIFIED);

To allow screen rotation. The issue in this approach is that I have a lot of fragments and will need to make sure that it wont affect others, which I don't want to do.

Question : Is there some way to have a listener when user is trying to make a screen rotation, but when you don't allow him to do so, in that way fragment wont change it's orientation, but I'll catch screen rotation action.

Please help!

edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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asked Feb 23 '16 at 15:18

Nik Myers

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Even when you don't allow rotation, sensors are working. Invoke them to detect rotation. – statosdotcom Feb 23 '16 at 15:27
I am not sure if this helps http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27614439/how-to-detect-my-screen-orientation-in-portrait-locked-screen-in-android. Do have a look – Raghunandan Feb 23 '16 at 15:27
Thx for responses, i will look into – Nik Myers Feb 23 '16 at 15:36

Detect when user is trying to rotate screen

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