java.lang.IllegalStateException: Only fullscreen opaque activities can request orientation

Question

I am facing the problem while retrieving the contacts from the contact book in Android 8.0 Oreo java.lang.IllegalStateException: Only fullscreen opaque activities can request orientation

I am trying to get the contact in my activity from the phone contact book and it works perfect for Lollipop, Marshmallow, Nougat, etc but it will gives me the error for Oreo like this please help me. My code is here below.

Demo Code :-

private void loadContacts() {
            contactAsync = new ContactLoaderAsync();
            contactAsync.execute();
        }

        private class ContactLoaderAsync extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {
            private Cursor numCursor;

            @Override
            protected void onPreExecute() {
                super.onPreExecute();
                Uri numContacts = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI;
                String[] numProjection = new String[]{ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE};
                if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 11) {
                    numCursor = InviteByContactActivity.this.managedQuery(numContacts, numProjection, null, null, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME + " COLLATE NOCASE ASC");
                } else {
                    CursorLoader cursorLoader = new CursorLoader(InviteByContactActivity.this, numContacts, numProjection, null, null, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME + " COLLATE NOCASE ASC");
                    numCursor = cursorLoader.loadInBackground();
                }

            }

            @Override
            protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
                if (numCursor.moveToFirst()) {
                    try {
                        final int contactIdIndex = numCursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID);
                        final int displayNameIndex = numCursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME);
                        final int numberIndex = numCursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER);
                        final int typeIndex = numCursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE);
                        String displayName, number, type;
                        do {
                            displayName = numCursor.getString(displayNameIndex);
                            number = numCursor.getString(numberIndex);
                            type = getContactTypeString(numCursor.getString(typeIndex), true);
                            final ContactModel contact = new ContactModel(displayName, type, number);
                            phoneNumber = number.replaceAll(" ", "").replaceAll("\\(", "").replaceAll("\\)", "").replaceAll("-", "");

                            if (phoneNumber != null || displayName != null) {
                                contacts.add(phoneNumber);
                                contactsName.add(displayName);
                                contactsChecked.add(false);

                                filterdNames.add(phoneNumber);
                                filterdContactNames.add(displayName);
                                filterdCheckedNames.add(false);
                            }
                        } while (numCursor.moveToNext());
                    } finally {
                        numCursor.close();
                    }
                }


                Collections.sort(contacts, new Comparator<String>() {
                    @Override
                    public int compare(String lhs, String rhs) {
                        return lhs.compareToIgnoreCase(rhs);
                    }
                });

                InviteByContactActivity.this.runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        mContactAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
                    }
                });

                return null;
            }
        }

        private String getContactTypeString(String typeNum, boolean isPhone) {
            String type = PHONE_TYPES.get(typeNum);
            if (type == null)
                return "other";
            return type;
        }

        static HashMap<String, String> PHONE_TYPES = new HashMap<String, String>();

        static {
            PHONE_TYPES.put(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE_HOME + "", "home");
            PHONE_TYPES.put(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE_MOBILE + "", "mobile");
            PHONE_TYPES.put(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE_WORK + "", "work");
        }
}

Error Log:-

E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main Process: com.example, PID: 6573
                                                             java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example/com.example.Activity.InviteByContactActivity}: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Only fullscreen opaque activities can request orientation
                                                              Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Only fullscreen opaque activities can request orientation

Check this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6745797/how-to-set-entire-application-in-portrait-mode-only — yash786, Jan 03 '18 at 06:42
this may help you https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46980697/lock-screen-orientation-when-targeting-android-api-27-with-a-non-opaque-activity — AskNilesh, Jan 03 '18 at 06:43
check this as well :https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46980697/lock-screen-orientation-when-targeting-android-api-27-with-a-non-opaque-activity — yash786, Jan 03 '18 at 06:44
are you using android:screenOrientation="portrait" in manifest? — Ragesh Ramesh, Jan 03 '18 at 06:59
i solved it in my project like this https://stackoverflow.com/a/48077046/4149649 — Yuri Misyac, Jan 03 '18 at 12:07
@ShubhamSejpal did you solved? If not, have you extended a NoActionBar theme putting window translucent and are you compiling with `compileSdkVersion = targetSdkVersion = 27` — shadowsheep, Feb 07 '18 at 11:51

Radesh · Answer 1 · 2021-06-23T06:11:06.840

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In android Oreo (API 26) you can not change orientation for Activity that have below line(s) in style

 <item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item>

or

 <item name="android:windowIsFloating">true</item>

You have several way to solving this :

1) You can simply remove above line(s) (or turn it to false) and your app works fine.

2) Or you can first remove below line from manifest for that activity

android:screenOrientation="portrait"

Then you must add this line to your activity (in onCreate())

'>=' change to '!=' thanks to Entreco comment

    //android O fix bug orientation
    if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT != Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
        setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);
    }

3) You can create new styles.xml in values-v26 folder and add this to your style.xml. (Thanks to AbdelHady comment)

 <item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">false</item>
 <item name="android:windowIsFloating">false</item>

edited Jun 23 '21 at 06:11

answered Jun 13 '18 at 08:22

Radesh

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on Android PIE this works as expected. So the check really should be: `android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT != Build.VERSION_CODES.O` – Entreco Nov 06 '18 at 13:33
@avisper could you please share full condition code – Manikandan K Aug 28 '19 at 05:02
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In a device/emulator running API 26, option 2 doesn't work, I had to make a new `styles.xml` in `values-v26` to disable `android:windowIsTranslucent` for that API only. – AbdelHady Oct 13 '19 at 14:28
@AbdelHady Good solution, i will add it to my answer but check you code and fine why option 2 doesn't work, that my suggested option, – Radesh Oct 14 '19 at 07:12
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I used option 3 with a boolean value `true` and referred to it in `@bool/allowWindowFullScreenTranslucent`. Then in styles.xml under values-v26 set it to `false` and in values and values-v27 set it to `true`. – drorsun Dec 23 '19 at 15:02

score 94 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 03 '18 at 07:05

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In Android O and later this error happens when you set

 android:screenOrientation="portrait"

in Manifest.

Remove that line and use

 setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);

in your activity.

This will fix your issue.

answered Jan 03 '18 at 07:05

Ragesh Ramesh

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Any idea why? I want to restrict my app to go into landscape. – Irfan Raza Jan 11 '18 at 13:16
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Its a bug from google side. Should be fixed in future updates. setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT); will restrict your app from going into landscape. Make sure you use this in on create of all your activities. – Ragesh Ramesh Jan 12 '18 at 07:31
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**Removing** `true` from my style that inherits from `Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar` worked for me. – shadowsheep Jan 29 '18 at 10:51
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Then the issue becomes: `Only fullscreen activities can request orientation`. However, I have set the theme of activity to `@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen` – thundertrick Jan 31 '18 at 03:48
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This solution works, but it messes up my splashScreenTheme. Shame on Google for frequent sloppy roll-outs... – doctorram Mar 05 '18 at 17:13
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it does not look like this is a bug but intended : https://github.com/aosp-mirror/platform_frameworks_base/commit/39791594560b2326625b663ed6796882900c220f#diff-960c6fdd4a4b336d98b785268b2a78ff – Teovald Mar 14 '18 at 01:10
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"Intended" to break apps that worked on earlier versions? That goal has been definitely achieved. At least we have a solution, thanks to @Ragesh – Oleg Gryb Mar 18 '18 at 16:13
@OlegGryb Took me a long time to figure this out. Glad its of help to fellow developpers – Ragesh Ramesh Mar 19 '18 at 09:36
Many thanks again to @Ragesh. I got a number of crash reports for 8.0 at play console and would never figure it out without his answer. I wish, I could give him more than +1 :) – Oleg Gryb Mar 19 '18 at 17:04
Thanks :) I mistakenly placed that `android:screenOrientation="portrait"` in my FacebookActivity tag, after removing, it got resolved – Narendra Singh Mar 28 '18 at 10:36
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Replacing the manifest attribute by setting the orientation on the Activity class does not solve the problem. – rmgoncalo Apr 06 '18 at 10:14
@rmgoncalo are you using interstitial ads? – Ragesh Ramesh Apr 10 '18 at 04:52
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No @RageshRamesh, I have a regular and simple translucent activity. And it crashes on Android 8.0 (fixed on 8.1) either by setting orientation on the manifest or on the Activity's onCreate method – rmgoncalo Apr 10 '18 at 15:52
anyone found the solution – Thamilvanan Jun 08 '18 at 10:55
I'm getting this error with 'com.google.firebase:firebase-ads:15.0.1' gradle configuration. I'm updating it to 16.0.1 . I hope it will fix the error. Btw error happens only Android 8. Also firebase crash gives the following line in the crash report: 'na.onTransact(:com.google.android.gms.dynamite_adsdynamite@13280051@13.2.80 (040408-211705629):10)' – Aykut Uludağ Oct 04 '18 at 20:59
@RageshRamesh, I get this error when I try to set orientation programmatically java.lang.IllegalStateException: Only fullscreen activities can request orientation – Nishita Sep 05 '19 at 09:10

score 86 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 01 '18 at 15:37

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Google throws this exception on Activity's onCreate method after v27, their meaning is : if an Activity is translucent or floating, its orientation should be relied on parent(background) Activity, can't make decision on itself.

Even if you remove android:screenOrientation="portrait" from the floating or translucent Activity but fix orientation on its parent(background) Activity, it is still fixed by the parent, I have tested already.

One special situation : if you make translucent on a launcher Activity, it has't parent(background), so always rotate with device. Want to fix it, you have to take another way to replace <item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item> style.

edited Aug 01 '18 at 15:37

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answered Feb 19 '18 at 18:03

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I don't have this issue on my OnePlus running Android PIE. So it's not after v27, but when v!=28 – Entreco Nov 06 '18 at 13:34
Do you happen to have a link to the documentation for this ? I can't seem to find it. – Shivam Verma Nov 17 '18 at 12:33
translucent problem is really crazy, thanks ,it fixes my problem – Abhishek Garg Dec 17 '18 at 18:22
Thank you for noting that last section 'One special situation...' – guy_m Feb 19 '19 at 00:36
This should be the accepted answer. Makes perfect sense! – stoefln Jul 03 '19 at 18:47

Debasish Ghosh · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-22T16:34:23.583

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The problem seems to be happening when your target sdk is 28. So after trying out many options finally this worked.

<activity
            android:name=".activities.FilterActivity"
            android:theme="@style/Transparent"
            android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustResize" />

style:-

<style name="Transparent" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
     <item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item>
     <item name="android:windowBackground">@android:color/transparent</item>
     <item name="android:windowIsFloating">true</item>
     <item name="android:windowContentOverlay">@null</item>
     <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
     <item name="android:backgroundDimEnabled">false</item>
 </style>

Note:parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar" is needed for api 28. Previously had something else at api 26. Was working great but started to give problem at 28. Hope it helps someone out here. EDIT: For some only by setting <item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">false</item> and <item name="android:windowIsFloating">false</item> worked.May be depends upon the way you implement the solution works.In my case it worked by setting them to true.

edited Jul 22 '19 at 16:34

answered Oct 24 '18 at 08:50

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To anyone else who stumbles upon this "fix" I had to set `false` and also had to set `false` before it would work. – th317erd Feb 20 '19 at 18:21
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Where exactly is the solution to this? There is no `screenOrientation` attribute in the `activity` tag, and the only thing that causes the crash is `screenOrientation` being set while `android:windowIsTranslucent` is set to true. – android developer Apr 29 '19 at 14:19
This does not work, unless comments above is used. See answer by Radesh, which covers comments above, and more, and is clear – arberg May 24 '19 at 07:05
Setting translucent to false work for me false – Tran Quan Jul 31 '19 at 11:53
In my case, the solution was to remove 'android:theme' from the Activity in AndroidManifest.xml. But if you need it, you can add it programmatically before 'super.onCreate': setTheme(R.style.Theme_AppCompat_Light_Dialog); – Pavel Kataykin Mar 28 '20 at 07:21

gellyke · Answer 5 · 2018-07-15T10:25:13.547

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If you use a fullscreen transparent activity, there is no need to specify the orientation lock on the activity. It will take the configuration settings of the parent activity. So if the parent activity has in the manifest:

android:screenOrientation="portrait"

your translucent activity will have the same orientation lock: portrait.

edited Jul 15 '18 at 10:25

answered Jun 05 '18 at 07:21

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I think you made a small typo: should be "if you use a fullscreen *translucent* activity it will take the configuration setting of its parent activity" ^^ – Josselin Jul 12 '18 at 19:43
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What if my transparent activity is my launcher activity(i.e. splash screen) – Bhupesh Jul 27 '18 at 13:21
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Is this true for all android versions? Or is it only Android O and upwards? – vepzfe Sep 24 '18 at 17:34
This won't work if this is the only Activity that's being used, though (example: starting it from a Service) – android developer Apr 30 '19 at 12:56

score 32 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 20 '18 at 13:15

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I used android:screenOrientation="behind" instead of android:screenOrientation="portrait". Basically, you created a dialog (in an activity) and dialog can't request orientation by itself it needs parent activity to do this (because a parent is visible in the background and has own layout).

"behind" The same orientation as the activity that's immediately beneath it in the activity stack.

answered Sep 20 '18 at 13:15

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What if I want the Activity that I've created to be transparent, showing what's beneath it (including other apps), while also staying on the current orientation? If I let it stay "behind", it can still change orientation on various cases... – android developer Apr 30 '19 at 12:55

toto_tata · Answer 7 · 2018-09-17T14:08:47.947

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The only solution that really works :

Change:

<item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item>

to:

<item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">false</item>

in styles.xml

But this might induce a problem with your splashscreen (white screen at startup)... In this case, add the following line to your styles.xml:

 <item name="android:windowDisablePreview">true</item>

just below the windowIsTranslucent line.

Last chance if the previous tips do not work : target SDK 26 instead o 27.

edited Sep 17 '18 at 14:08

answered May 31 '18 at 08:02

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Changing the target SDK to 26 instead of 27 worked for me. Changing windowIsTranslucent didn't. – Cliche818 Jun 18 '18 at 16:19
This worked for me using targetSDK: 27. It is specially important since I had a splashscreen configured. – Leonardo G. May 12 '19 at 23:15

score 21 · Answer 8 · edited Aug 21 '19 at 03:41

If you have to use setRequestedOrientation(), there is no way but sacrifice the windowIsTranslucent attribute on Android 8.0

values\styles.xml for api level 25- (<8.0)

<style name="Base.Theme.DesignDemo" parent="Base.Theme.AppCompat.Light">
        ...
        <item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item>
        ...
    </style>

values-v26\styles.xml for api level 26 (=8.0)

<style name="Base.Theme.DesignDemo" parent="Base.Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    ...
    <!-- android 8.0(api26)，Only fullscreen opaque activities can request orientation -->
    <item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">false</item>
    ...
</style>

values-v27\styles.xml for api level 27+ (>8.0)

<style name="Base.Theme.DesignDemo" parent="Base.Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    ...
    <item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item>
    ...
</style>

score 16 · Answer 9 · answered Jun 12 '18 at 03:58

Many people have given a fix, so I'll talk about the source of the problem.

According to the exception log：

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Only fullscreen opaque activities can request orientation
    at android.app.Activity.onCreate(Activity.java:1081)
    at android.support.v4.app.SupportActivity.onCreate(SupportActivity.java:66)
    at android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity.onCreate(FragmentActivity.java:297)
    at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity.onCreate(AppCompatActivity.java:84)
    at com.nut.blehunter.ui.DialogContainerActivity.onCreate(DialogContainerActivity.java:43)
    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:7372)
    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1218)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3147)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3302) 
    at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap12(Unknown Source:0) 
    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1891) 
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:108) 
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:166)

The code that triggered the exception in Activity.java

    //Need to pay attention mActivityInfo.isFixedOrientation() and ActivityInfo.isTranslucentOrFloating(ta)
    if (getApplicationInfo().targetSdkVersion >= O_MR1 && mActivityInfo.isFixedOrientation()) {
        final TypedArray ta = obtainStyledAttributes(com.android.internal.R.styleable.Window);
        final boolean isTranslucentOrFloating = ActivityInfo.isTranslucentOrFloating(ta);
        ta.recycle();

        //Exception occurred
        if (isTranslucentOrFloating) {
            throw new IllegalStateException(
                    "Only fullscreen opaque activities can request orientation");
        }
    }

mActivityInfo.isFixedOrientation()：

        /**
        * Returns true if the activity's orientation is fixed.
        * @hide
        */
        public boolean isFixedOrientation() {
            return isFixedOrientationLandscape() || isFixedOrientationPortrait()
                    || screenOrientation == SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LOCKED;
        }
        /**
        * Returns true if the activity's orientation is fixed to portrait.
        * @hide
        */
        boolean isFixedOrientationPortrait() {
            return isFixedOrientationPortrait(screenOrientation);
        }

        /**
        * Returns true if the activity's orientation is fixed to portrait.
        * @hide
        */
        public static boolean isFixedOrientationPortrait(@ScreenOrientation int orientation) {
            return orientation == SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT
                    || orientation == SCREEN_ORIENTATION_SENSOR_PORTRAIT
                    || orientation == SCREEN_ORIENTATION_REVERSE_PORTRAIT
                    || orientation == SCREEN_ORIENTATION_USER_PORTRAIT;
        }

        /**
        * Determines whether the {@link Activity} is considered translucent or floating.
        * @hide
        */
        public static boolean isTranslucentOrFloating(TypedArray attributes) {
            final boolean isTranslucent = attributes.getBoolean(com.android.internal.R.styleable.Window_windowIsTranslucent, false);
            final boolean isSwipeToDismiss = !attributes.hasValue(com.android.internal.R.styleable.Window_windowIsTranslucent)
                                            && attributes.getBoolean(com.android.internal.R.styleable.Window_windowSwipeToDismiss, false);
            final boolean isFloating = attributes.getBoolean(com.android.internal.R.styleable.Window_windowIsFloating, false);
            return isFloating || isTranslucent || isSwipeToDismiss;
        }

According to the above code analysis, when TargetSdkVersion>=27, when using SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE, SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT, and other related attributes, the use of windowIsTranslucent, windowIsFloating, and windowSwipeToDismiss topic attributes will trigger an exception.

After the problem is found, you can change the TargetSdkVersion or remove the related attributes of the theme according to your needs.

Checking the code on master at this moment, it's already removed from framework: mirror/platform_frameworks_base/commit/e83f34cde79c51efb66f31f2770c2e8e572e96db#diff-a9aa0352703240c8ae70f1c83add4bc8 It's interesting to see the commit message. — Erick M. Sprengel, Sep 13 '18 at 18:07
Can you please show a link to the source code of this part? Is there any workaround that will let me have an Activity with specific orientation AND have a transparent background, so that it will be possible to see what's behind it (including other apps) ? — android developer, Apr 30 '19 at 13:44

score 9 · Answer 10 · answered Apr 18 '18 at 11:17

I can't agree to most rated answer, because

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);

causes an error

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Only fullscreen opaque activities can request orientation

but this makes it works for me

<style name="TranslucentTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowActionBar">false</item>
    <item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowContentOverlay">@null</item>
</style>

and use it for your Activity, when you extends from

InterstitialActivity extends AppCompatActivity

in AndroidManifest.xml

    <activity
        android:name=".InterstitialActivity"
        ...
        android:screenOrientation="portrait"
        android:theme="@style/TranslucentTheme" />

false true => this fixed it for me on android 8.0. I could still leave screenOrientation in the manifest. — Frank, May 08 '18 at 10:02
This doesn't work the same as windowIsTranslucent , because now you can't see what's behind the Activity. — android developer, Apr 29 '19 at 14:35

score 9 · Answer 11 · answered Nov 22 '18 at 13:54

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Just remove this line android:screenOrientation="portrait" of activity in Manifiest.xml

That activity will get orientation from it's previous activity so no need to apply orientation which has <item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item>.

answered Nov 22 '18 at 13:54

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What if the previous activity has a different orientation the what you want in the current activity? – ClassA Jun 07 '19 at 04:16

Attaullah · Answer 12 · 2019-11-18T21:01:26.183

Just Set Orientation of activity in Manifiest.xml

android:screenOrientation="unspecified"

OR for restricted to Portrait Orientation

You can also use in Activity, In onCreate method call before super.onCreate(...) e.g.

@Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        setOrientation(this);
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.your_xml_layout);
        //...
        //...
}

// Method 
public static void setOrientation(Activity context) {
   if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT == Build.VERSION_CODES.O)
        context.setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_UNSPECIFIED);
      else
        context.setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);
}

Avinash Jadaun · Answer 13 · 2019-07-02T14:11:27.483

it seems when target sdk is pie (api level 28.0) and windowIsTranslucent is true

<item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item>

and you try to access orientation. problem comes with android oreo 8.0 (api level 26) there are two ways to solve this

remove the orientation
or set windowIsTranslucent to false

if you are setting orientation in manifest like this

android:screenOrientation="portrait"

or in activity class like this

 setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);

remove form both places.

and observed when u set windowIsTranslucent to true, it takes orientation from parent activity.

score 5 · Answer 14 · answered Jul 21 '18 at 14:26

in the manifest file set second activity parentActivityName as first activity and remove the screenOrientation parameter to the second activity. it means your first activity is the parent and decide to an orientation of your second activity.

<activity
        android:name=".view.FirstActiviy"
        android:screenOrientation="portrait"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" />

<activity
        android:name=".view.SecondActivity"
        android:parentActivityName=".view.FirstActiviy"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme.Transparent" />

score 5 · Answer 15 · answered Nov 16 '19 at 22:32

I recently faced the issue and here's the solution.

No need to change the screen orientation parameter which you set at android manifest file.

Just add two folders in

res>values
as  res>values-v26 
and res>values-v27

Then copy your styles.xml and themes.xml file there.

and change the following parameters from TRUE to FALSE.

<item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item>

<item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">false</item>

It will work.

A common bug of Android 8.0

score 5 · Answer 16 · answered Jun 30 '21 at 15:09

some of the answers wasnt clear for me and didnt work,

so this was causing the error:

<activity
android:name=".ForgotPass_ChangePass"
android:screenOrientation="portrait" <--- // this caused the error
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustPan|adjustResize"/>

android studio was suggeting to set screenOrientation to fullSensor

android:screenOrientation="fullSensor"

yes this will fix the error but i wan to keep my layout in the portrait mode, and fullSensor will act based on the sensor

"fullSensor" The orientation is determined by the device orientation sensor for any of the 4 orientations. This is similar to "sensor" except this allows any of the 4 possible screen orientations, regardless of what the device will normally do (for example, some devices won't normally use reverse portrait or reverse landscape, but this enables those). Added in API level 9.

source: android:screenOrientation

so the solution that worked for me i used "nosensor" :

 <activity
        android:name=".ForgotPass_ChangePass"
        android:screenOrientation="nosensor"
        android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustPan|adjustResize"/>

"nosensor" The orientation is determined without reference to a physical orientation sensor. The sensor is ignored, so the display will not rotate based on how the user moves the device.

see android documentation here

score 4 · Answer 17 · edited Aug 16 '18 at 19:58

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I had the same problem, and my solution was to eliminate the line

android:screenOrientation="portrait"

and then add this in the activity:

if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
    setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);
}

edited Aug 16 '18 at 19:58

Michael Myers

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Please use English on Stack Overflow. Thanks! – Michael Myers Aug 16 '18 at 19:57

Hamed Jaliliani · Answer 18 · 2019-04-30T04:48:32.203

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It is a conflict (bug) between Themes inside style.xml file in android versions 7 (Api levels 24,25) & 8 (api levels 26,27), when you have

android:screenOrientation="portrait" :inside specific activity (that crashes) in AndroidManifest.xml

&

<item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item>

in the theme that applied to that activity inside style.xml

It can be solve by these ways according to your need :

1- Remove on of the above mentioned properties that make conflict

2- Change Activity orientation to one of these values as you need : unspecified or behind and so on that can be found here : Google reference for android:screenOrientation `

3- Set the orientation programmatically in run time

edited Apr 30 '19 at 04:48

answered Jan 07 '19 at 15:18

Hamed Jaliliani

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Tried this solution, but app still crashes: I need portrait transparent activity so I need both this options. Tried set in manifest screenOrientation unspecified, but no luck. – anber Apr 03 '19 at 14:39
No. I tried remove orientation in manifest at all, and make activity fullscreen, but it still crashes. Only on 1 device - honor 9 lite. On Samsung it works ok. – anber Apr 05 '19 at 17:06
Setting the orientation programmatically also causes the crash. How did you use it exactly? – android developer Apr 29 '19 at 14:39
@androiddeveloper how can I access your source code?! I must see what you did – Hamed Jaliliani Apr 29 '19 at 15:02
@HamedJaliliani Setting it programmaticaly is as such, for example: ` setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);` – android developer Apr 29 '19 at 23:05
@androiddeveloper what is your activity tag code in manifest, version of android that you face this error & logcat error? – Hamed Jaliliani Apr 30 '19 at 04:54
@HamedJaliliani Here's a sample code: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/131534974 . Would be easier than to explain in a restricted comment section. – android developer Apr 30 '19 at 07:06
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It's 2023 and we just ran into this! We have targetSdkVersion 32 and minSdkVersion 26 This solution is closest to what worked for us, we just removed in the manifest android:screenOrientation="portrait" for all activities that were also having android:windowIsTranslucent done – ezaspi Jul 05 '23 at 17:39

score 3 · Answer 19 · answered Sep 26 '18 at 01:04

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After doing some research, it seems that this problem may be due to a google bug. For me, I was able to leave this line in my Activities onCreate method:

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);

AND I changed my targetSdkVersion to 26. Having that line in my onCreate still resulted in a crash while my targetSdkVersion was still set at 27. Since no one else's solution has worked for me thus far, I found that this works as a temporary fix for now.

answered Sep 26 '18 at 01:04

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This one worked for me by setting targetSdkVersion to 26, android:screenOrientation="portrait" and true – siripan Nov 19 '18 at 05:46
@siripan for me too – Acauã Pitta Mar 12 '19 at 17:21
But eventually you will have to set the targetSdkVersion to 28 this year : https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/113469#targetsdk . What will you do? – android developer Apr 29 '19 at 14:38

score 3 · Answer 20 · answered Jan 04 '19 at 13:10

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only 8.0.0 throw the exception, above 8.0 has remove the exception

answered Jan 04 '19 at 13:10

Mingo

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Android 7, 7.1 , 8.0 , 8.1 all have this problem – Hamed Jaliliani Jan 07 '19 at 15:21
`appInfo.targetSdkVersion > O` throw the exception – Mingo Jan 08 '19 at 11:36
Its checking the `target` sdk version. It doesn't matter what sdk version the device is actually running, you're compiling against Android O (28) but not following the conventions of that version of the platform. – zOqvxf Mar 22 '19 at 09:10

score 3 · Answer 21 · answered Jul 02 '19 at 08:15

Use

android:screenOrientation="behind"

And Theme

<style name="translucent" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <item name="android:windowBackground">#beaaaaaa</item>
    <item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowAnimationStyle">@android:style/Animation</item>
    <item name="android:typeface">normal</item>
    <item name="android:windowSoftInputMode">adjustPan</item>
    <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
</style>

score 2 · Answer 22 · answered Apr 17 '18 at 12:00

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Probably you showing Activity looking like Dialog(non-fullscreen), so remove screenOrientation from Manifest or from code. This will fix the issue.

answered Apr 17 '18 at 12:00

Kostadin Georgiev

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Hmm very strange, for me that was the case. Try running the app on different Android versions, see what will be the result this may help you... – Kostadin Georgiev Apr 18 '18 at 07:20

score 2 · Answer 23 · answered Sep 28 '18 at 07:13

I faced this problem only in SDK 26 (8.0.0) if using windowIsTranslucent 'true' and forcefully setting orientation:

Here's the solution:

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_splash);   

        // fixing portrait mode problem for SDK 26 if using windowIsTranslucent = true
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT == 26) {
            setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_UNSPECIFIED);
        } else {
            setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);
        }        
    }



       <style name="SplashActivty" parent="AppTheme">
        <item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item>
        <item name="android:windowBackground">@android:color/transparent</item>
        <item name="android:windowContentOverlay">@null</item>
        <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
    </style>



<!-- Splash screen -->
        <activity
            android:name="edu.aku.family_hifazat.activities.SplashActivity"
            android:label="@string/app_name"
            android:screenOrientation="unspecified"
            android:theme="@style/SplashActivty">

            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>

        </activity>

But then you lose the functionality of actually having the orientation set to what you wanted. — android developer, Apr 29 '19 at 14:38

score 2 · Answer 24 · answered Jan 02 '19 at 05:06

I was getting this error when I try to capture image or take image from gallery what works for me is to remove both

 setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);

and

android:screenOrientation="portrait"

now my activity is using this theme:

  <style name="Transparent" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
        <item name="android:windowBackground">@android:color/transparent</item>
        <item name="android:colorBackgroundCacheHint">@null</item>
        <item name="android:windowAnimationStyle">@android:style/Animation</item>
        <item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">false</item>
        <item name="android:windowContentOverlay">@null</item>
        <item name="android:windowIsFloating">true</item>
        <item name="android:backgroundDimEnabled">false</item>
    </style>

This doesn't work, as `windowIsFloating` causes the same crash as `windowIsTranslucent` . — android developer, Apr 29 '19 at 14:43

score 2 · Answer 25 · answered Apr 01 '19 at 13:59

2

The only thing that worked for me was changing

android:screenOrientation="portrait"

to

android:screenOrientation="unspecified"

in the manifest for all translucent activities.

That way it is compatible with all API versions since the translucent activity seems to inherit its orientation from the parent activity as of targetApi: 28.

The style can be left as it is including <item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item>.

answered Apr 01 '19 at 13:59

Max Heimer

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Tried this solution, but app still crashes – anber Apr 03 '19 at 14:37
But then you lose the function of setting the orientation – android developer Apr 29 '19 at 14:40
@androiddeveloper: The way I understand it the orientation will be inherited from the parent activity. If you want to explicitly set another orientation on the translucent activity that wouldn't work this way... – Max Heimer May 08 '19 at 14:00
Sometimes you can't have control of the previous Activity. Sometimes you want to show your transparent one on top of what the user currently sees. So this can't help :( – android developer May 08 '19 at 17:39

score 2 · Answer 26 · answered Feb 24 '20 at 03:29

I resolved this issue by removing android:screenOrientation="portrait" and added below code into my onCreate

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
            setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);
}

while my theme properties are

<item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item>
<item name="android:windowDisablePreview">true</item>

score 1 · Answer 27 · answered Mar 19 '18 at 23:10

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I do not know if this is a bug from Google or an intended behavior but I (at least momentarily) solved it by changing compileSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion back to 26 in Gradle...

answered Mar 19 '18 at 23:10

Seven

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You shouldn't lower the targetsdk level. Your app will be blocked from the play store eventually. Always target the latest Android Api level https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/12/improving-app-security-and-performance.html – Shmuel Apr 19 '18 at 19:30
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@Shmuel : wrong. You can target 26 and be available on 28 on the store. – toto_tata Jun 01 '18 at 15:10
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Correct, I wrote 'eventually' if you build your app targeting an older api level you will be in a world of pain when you are forced to update – Shmuel Jun 01 '18 at 21:21
This is not a solution but a workaround. One day you have to migrate your app to 28 and hence! – sud007 Sep 12 '19 at 09:36

score 1 · Answer 28 · answered Apr 05 '18 at 10:28

If you haven't resolved your problem just register the ad activity in the manifest like this:

<activity
android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.AdActivity"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen"
tools:replace="android:theme"
 />

You also need to update to the latest version of the sdk.

score 1 · Answer 29 · answered Jul 18 '18 at 04:04

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this happened after 27,use targetSdkVersion 26 replace, wait for google fixed it

answered Jul 18 '18 at 04:04

yihang wu

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Please provide any reference (link or quoted) when posting an answer. So future users can understand easily. Also, welcome to the **SO Community**. – Mohammedsalim Shivani Jul 18 '18 at 04:15
@MohammedsalimShivani Here: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/68454482#comment4 "Our engineering team has fixed this issue. It will be available in a future Android release, so please keep an eye on the release notes." – android developer Apr 29 '19 at 14:47
This is bad advice – Chris Oct 13 '19 at 10:18

score 0 · Answer 30 · answered Jan 10 '19 at 07:21

If the activity created by yourself, you can try this in the Activity:

@Override
public void setRequestedOrientation(int requestedOrientation) {
    try {
        super.setRequestedOrientation(requestedOrientation);
    } catch (IllegalStateException e) {
        // Only fullscreen activities can request orientation
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

This should be the easiest solution.

score 0 · Answer 31 · answered May 23 '19 at 15:57

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I've just removed the tags "portrait" from the non full-screen elements and everything went fine.

android:screenOrientation="portrait"

answered May 23 '19 at 15:57

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score 0 · Answer 32 · edited Jan 10 '20 at 08:56

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Please check the style of your Activity and make sure if you are not using any Translucent related things, change the style to alternate. So that we can fix this problem.

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen"

edited Jan 10 '20 at 08:56

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score 0 · Answer 33 · answered Aug 31 '23 at 08:08

In Oreo API 27 transparent and translucent activity can’t request of orientation. Because the previous non opaque activity might have a different orientation as compared to top transparent activity which might create uneven UI behaviour.

opaque activity A (portrait) → transparent activity B (landscape) If above case was possible we might able to see A portrait from B’s transparent landscape orientation. Which will cut off A’s top and bottom.

A better solution would be to set A’s orientation to portrait if we want B to be portrait. It will inherit the last opaque activity orientation. Or just make the activity opaque and add your own orientation.

score -1 · Answer 34 · answered Jun 05 '19 at 13:39

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I had the same problem and I fixed it just by setting this: <item name="android:windowIsFloating">false</item> in styles.xml

answered Jun 05 '19 at 13:39

Francesco Pietrangelo

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score -2 · Answer 35 · answered Feb 22 '19 at 01:27

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Try remove lines of your theme:

<item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item>

and

<item name="android:windowIsFloating">true</item>

after this, add android:screenOrientation="portrait" in your activity.

answered Feb 22 '19 at 01:27

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score -3 · Answer 36 · answered Oct 08 '18 at 12:44

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User extend AppCompatActivity & it will work !!

answered Oct 08 '18 at 12:44

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java.lang.IllegalStateException: Only fullscreen opaque activities can request orientation

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