Android: How to force screen orientation for different screen sizes?

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I use two different layout folders:

layout
layout-large

Now I want to ensure that the screen orientation is portrait if the layout folder is used, and landscape if the layout-large folder is used. How can I force this?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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The correct directory-name for the landscape layouts is 'layout-land', see here.

If you do this, you don't need to do other things, Android will do the rest for you.

If you want to change to landscape based on the size of the Screen, you can check for the screen-resolution and then set the Orientation using the 'setRequestedOrientation()'-method from the Activity class.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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answered May 10 '11 at 17:25

Lukas Knuth

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I want to force to use landscape mode if the screen is large. I think If I follow your advice, I just define the layout if landscape mode is used. – RoflcoptrException May 10 '11 at 17:28
Ah, sorry. I didn't get that from your question. I updated my answer, check out if this works for you. – Lukas Knuth May 10 '11 at 18:09

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 21 '12 at 19:08

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Maybe its too late.. But for what it's worth, you can define orientation in value for small screen and in value-large for large screen and then use it in AndroidManifest.xml.

Have a look at my blog post.

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answered Jul 21 '12 at 13:55

Chitranshu Asthana

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 01 '12 at 11:17

Please have a look at this

supports-screens 
android:resizeable=["true"| "false"] 
android:smallScreens=["true" | "false"] 
android:normalScreens=["true" | "false"] 
android:largeScreens=["true" | "false"] 
android:xlargeScreens=["true" | "false"] 
android:anyDensity=["true" | "false"] 
android:requiresSmallestWidthDp="integer" 
android:compatibleWidthLimitDp="integer" 
android:largestWidthLimitDp="integer

It will handle your screen.

score -1 · Answer 4 · answered May 10 '11 at 17:21

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Place to allactivities android:screenOrientation="portrait" in manifest like:

 <activity android:name=".View" android:screenOrientation="portrait"
            android:label="Home">
        </activity>

answered May 10 '11 at 17:21

PedroAGSantos

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Yes but then I'm using portrait orientation in both cases? – RoflcoptrException May 10 '11 at 17:23

Android: How to force screen orientation for different screen sizes?

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