Force set orientation to Landscape for an activity even when auto rotate is enabled

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I am setting the orientation with setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_USER_LANDSCAPE)

However when I check for the orientation before setting this up using Activity.getResources().getConfiguration().orientation I am getting value 1 which is potrait.

Then I set the orientation with the code. Still I am getting the value 1, also the android system is looking in Layout folder(potrait) for the layout rather than layout-large-land. So conclusion is, How to force set the orientation to Landscape?

if the device is not `large`, then it won't use values from `layout-large-land` in any case. So make sure you have a `layout-land` as well — Vladyslav Matviienko, Nov 11 '16 at 11:40

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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You can force set orientation in AndroidManifest.xml for Activity:

<activity
    android:name="<name_of_your_activity>"
    android:screenOrientation="landscape"
    ...

Update Take a look at this question.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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answered Nov 11 '16 at 11:40

Andrii Omelchenko

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Actually I want to set Potrait orientation for Phones and Landscape for Tablets. So I cannot set the orientation through Manifest – Kannan_SJD Nov 11 '16 at 11:42

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 11 '16 at 11:47

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create bool.xml in values

<resources>
    <bool name="isTablet">false</bool>
</resources>

create another bool.xml in values-sw600dp

<resources>
    <bool name="isTablet">true</bool>
</resources>

then in your activity

boolean tabletSize = getResources().getBoolean(R.bool.isTablet);
if (tabletSize) {
    setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);
} else {
    setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);
}

answered Nov 11 '16 at 11:47

Rajesh Gosemath

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Dude, I am already getting that boolean and tried this code. However this is not setting the orientation to potrait. I have confirmed this with `Activity.getResources().getConfiguration().orientation`. And even before setting setrequestedorientation and after that the value remains 1 – Kannan_SJD Nov 11 '16 at 12:18
no, I didnt set orientation Attribute for this activity in manifest – Kannan_SJD Nov 11 '16 at 12:37
Where should this be called? – Kannan_SJD Nov 11 '16 at 12:37
In your activity after setContentView() – Rajesh Gosemath Nov 11 '16 at 12:42
can you post your code on pastebin.com so that i can have a look. – Rajesh Gosemath Nov 11 '16 at 12:43
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/127894/discussion-between-kannan-sjd-and-android-jack). – Kannan_SJD Nov 11 '16 at 12:57

Force set orientation to Landscape for an activity even when auto rotate is enabled

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