Android + Flash screen rotation problem

Question

I am using this code to show a flash video, My problem is when I go from vertical to horizontal position, application reloads and video is reset. How can i avoid this. Please advice

@Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.internalwebview);

        mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
        mWebView.setWebViewClient(new HelloWebViewClient());
        mWebView.getSettings().setPluginsEnabled(true);
        mWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        mWebView.getSettings().setSupportZoom(true);
        mWebView.getSettings().setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
        mWebView.setInitialScale(ZOOM_LEVEL);
        mWebView.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);

            mWebView.loadUrl(url);

    }

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 23 '11 at 13:14

Add android:screenOrientation="portrait" to the activity in the AndroidManifest.xml. For example:

    <activity android:name=".SomeActivity"
          android:label="@string/app_name"
          android:screenOrientation="portrait">

This will disable the auto-orientation-change otherwise you will had to handle the change yourself

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:00

If you haven't already, you could try saving the state of your WebView when the orientation changes by adding a reference to onSaveInstanceState() in your activity:

protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
  mWebView.saveState(outState);
}

Then resetting it again in your onCreate() method, as follows:

public void onCreate(final Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.internalwebview);

    if (savedInstanceState != null)
        ((WebView)findViewById(R.id.webview)).restoreState(savedInstanceState);
 }

Although I'm not quite sure if it works for embedded Flash video as well. See for more information this thread or the Android SDK reference

great explanation, but just in case one wonders what happens when an orientation change occurs ... [here's a good breakdown](http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2008/11/26/android-lifecycle-triggers-part-2/) — taymless, May 23 '11 at 14:02

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 24 '11 at 04:31

Thanks I found the answer by my self.

mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
mWebView.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
mWebView.getSettings().setPluginsEnabled(true);
mWebView.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);
mWebView.getSettings().setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
mWebView.setWebViewClient(new HelloWebViewClient());
mWebView.loadUrl(url);

and in AndroidManifest.xml

<android:label="@string/app_name"  android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"  android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar">

Android + Flash screen rotation problem

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