Set orientation fixed for all activities

Question

I know there are two ways to set an Activity's orientation to landscape, either programmatically

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);

or in the Manifest:

android:orientation="landscape"

Currently, I use the first one in a superclass, because I have many (child) activities that I all want to be always in landscape. However, this make onCreate being called twice, which leads to other issues. When using the Manifest-route, I have to apply it to all activities separately, which will undoubtedly lead to one being missed out in the future (not to mention all the code copying).

Is there a way to apply android:orientation="landscape" to all activities in my app?

have a look here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6582761/how-can-i-set-orientation-fixed-for-all-activities — johnrao07, Jun 28 '16 at 12:30
@johnrao07 That's how it is working now (by using a superclass); this leads to `onCreate` being called twice though. — Bart Friederichs, Jun 28 '16 at 12:31
What problem you are facing while setting these to your base activity — T_V, Jun 28 '16 at 12:48
Problem with setting it to all: 1) difficult to change the value 2) impossible to have different value for different build variants — Pointer Null, Apr 02 '19 at 16:55

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 28 '16 at 12:46

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Or you can try make "superclass" for all activities and extends from "superclass".

public abstract class SuperActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { 
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);

answered Jun 28 '16 at 12:46

Hippo

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Read the question. That is what I have now. – Bart Friederichs Jun 28 '16 at 18:02

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 28 '16 at 12:27

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In the manifest, set this for all your activities:

<activity android:name=".YourActivity"
android:configChanges="orientation"
android:screenOrientation="portrait"/>

Let me explain:

With android:configChanges="orientation" you tell Android that you will be responsible of the changes of orientation. android:screenOrientation="portrait" you set the default orientation mode.

answered Jun 28 '16 at 12:27

Nitesh

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I understand that, but this way I have to do it for each activity separately, which I don't want, because I will eventually forget one. – Bart Friederichs Jun 28 '16 at 12:28
you will have to add this in each activity as of now android doesnt provide any feature like that.. – Nitesh Jun 28 '16 at 12:32

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 28 '16 at 12:44

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OnCreate will be called when an activity is created. When you setting in code

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);

Activity recreates itself, so you can't really stop that. (maybe you can, try it, when you get a solution try posting..)

You gotta handle your stuff that way

Possible Solutions

android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize" in manifiest in tag

OR

Add it directly in your manifest the orientation property

answered Jun 28 '16 at 12:44

johnrao07

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Read the question. That is what I posted. I was looking for a way to apply that argument to all activities in the manifest at once. – Bart Friederichs Jun 28 '16 at 18:03

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 03 '19 at 04:29

I set screen orientation for all activities in my application class.

import android.app.Application
import android.os.Bundle
import android.app.Activity
import android.content.pm.ActivityInfo

class MyApplication : Application() {

    override fun onCreate() {
        super.onCreate()

        setListenerToCheckActivitySettings()
    }

    private fun setListenerToCheckActivitySettings() {

        registerActivityLifecycleCallbacks(object : ActivityLifecycleCallbacks {
            override fun onActivityCreated(activity: Activity, savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {

                activity.requestedOrientation = ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT
            }

            override fun onActivityStarted(activity: Activity) {}
            override fun onActivityResumed(activity: Activity) {}
            override fun onActivitySaveInstanceState(activity: Activity, outState: Bundle?) {}
            override fun onActivityPaused(activity: Activity) {}
            override fun onActivityStopped(activity: Activity) {}
            override fun onActivityDestroyed(activity: Activity) {}
        })
    }
}

Set orientation fixed for all activities

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