Programmatically disabling screen rotations in the entire Android application

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How do I programmatically disable screen rotations for an entire Android application?

are you ok to do it in every activity? May be this link helps you http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1512045/how-to-disable-orientation-change-in-android — kosa, Feb 14 '12 at 04:56
check the following link. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2366706/how-to-lock-orientation-during-runtime — Raj, Feb 14 '12 at 04:57

sealz · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-14T05:10:20.257

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As in keep it in portrait or Landscape no matter which way device is tilted? You need to add this to your manifest inside the activity that you want to limit

 android:screenOrientation="portrait" //Or landscape for horizontal.

If you want it different between activities just make your manifest look like this.

        <activity android:name=".Activity1" 
        android:screenOrientation="landscape">       
        </activity>

        <activity android:name=".Activity2" 
        android:screenOrientation="portrait">
        </activity>

        <activity android:name=".Activity3" 
        android:screenOrientation="landscape">
        </activity>

edited Feb 14 '12 at 05:10

answered Feb 14 '12 at 05:05

sealz

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i want portrait orientation for the entire application – Krish Feb 14 '12 at 05:12
Just have to make all the activities look like .Activity2. Enjoy! – sealz Feb 14 '12 at 05:14
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`programmatically`! – Yousha Aleayoub Sep 26 '16 at 08:28

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 14 '12 at 05:06

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Fix the orientation in android manifest for every activity

        <activity  android:name=".SomeNewDesignActivity"  
           android:screenOrientation="portrait"  ></activity>

answered Feb 14 '12 at 05:06

Tofeeq Ahmad

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fix every ativity orientation as you want portrait/landscape etc – Tofeeq Ahmad Feb 14 '12 at 05:09
no every activity has its own orientation.So you have to set this attribute for every activity in application manifest – Tofeeq Ahmad Feb 14 '12 at 05:17

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 05 '17 at 08:39

Too late to the party!

Anyway if you want to disable rotation without forcing the user to choose landscape or portrait you can use in each activity in the manifest

android:screenOrientation="locked"

So your manifest should look like this

    <activity android:name=".Activity1" 
      android:screenOrientation="locked">       
    </activity>

    <activity android:name=".Activity2" 
      android:screenOrientation="locked">
    </activity>

    <activity android:name=".Activity3" 
      android:screenOrientation="locked">
    </activity>

So the app will keep the current orientation the user decided to use.

The same behaviour can be obtained programamtically:

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LOCKED);

Saiful Islam Sajib · Answer 4 · 2021-03-02T08:56:11.403

Best way to do screen orientation to potrait/landscap for entire app -

Add following lines in your app theme - 

for making all activity portrait - 



<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
 
    <item name="android:screenOrientation">portrait</item>
</style>

for making all activity landscape -

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
 
    <item name="android:screenOrientation">landscape</item>
</style>

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