Force portrait mode in camera

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I am invoking a camera using an intent and clicking a picture. Presently I am on emulator and would like to force camera to click the pictures in portrait mode(need to capture a video of app working,so orientation change would look bad) but the camera screen appears landscape and all the further activities which I invoke in onActivityResult().

Camera Screen

After clicking the picture the Activity layout comes out in landscape mode like this: enter image description here

while all my previous activity have displayed correctly in portrait orientation. I tried adding

android:screenOrientation="portrait" 
android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"

to the activity shown above but to no avail.Though when i hit home and upon resume it displays correctly in portrait.

So how do I force portrait mode??

`setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);` in onResume in your Camera Activity. — ρяσѕρєя K, Mar 28 '12 at 13:24
Have a look - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10259299/force-a-camera-to-always-open-in-portrait-mode-in-android — Suvam Roy, Apr 23 '12 at 05:49

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 03 '12 at 06:55

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None of the solutions work.There is nothing wrong with the layouts either.I got it to work by running on a higher version(API10 to API15). Weird!!

answered Apr 03 '12 at 06:55

Sankalp

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 19 '13 at 09:49

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I think this is a known problem, see Camera|SetDisplayOrientation

answered Mar 19 '13 at 09:49

Henrik Erlandsson

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 01 '17 at 17:17

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You only need to set Id for each of your views. You don't need to force portrait mode in camera. Doing this, prevent the activity to recreate views and losing data

answered Jan 01 '17 at 17:17

NBK.Nacer

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score -1 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 01 '12 at 15:00

Write in your manifest.xml where you have defined your this activity.

<activity android:name="your_activity name" android:screenOrientation="portrait" />

This should work. I suggest you to check in real device.

use this code for your image capturing class where your preview is starting.

score -2 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 28 '12 at 13:33

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This shoudl work:

 Intent i = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE); 
 i.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_SCREEN_ORIENTATION, ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT); 
 i.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, fileUri);
 startActivityForResult(i, CAMERA_CODE);

answered Mar 28 '12 at 13:33

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I tried using your code but orientation is still the same.Can something else be influencing the orienation?? – Sankalp Mar 28 '12 at 13:52
No I dont have a device yet. :( – Sankalp Mar 28 '12 at 14:05

Force portrait mode in camera

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