screen-rotation

How to handle an AsyncTask during Screen Rotation?

I read a lot on how to save my instance state or how to deal with my activity getting destroyed during screen rotation. There seem to be a lot of possibilities but I haven't figured out which one works best for retrieving results of an AsyncTask. I have some AsyncTasks that are simply started again and call the isFinishing() method of...

horizontal uiview's controls unresponsive.. or how to foul up a view hierarchy

Hello all, I'm working on an app that has two sections, a config section and a results section. My config section needs to be 2 separate views (horizontal and vert, and yes, I can hear the intake of breath from here), with one rotatable view for the results. b/c of layout restraints and a lot of pain around rotation, I'm not using a n...

iphone - how to implement rotational view as in iscopes

In iPhone app store, there is an app "iScopes", it implements a rotational view kind of thing. Please see the video iScopes App Can some one suggest me how to implement this kind of view? ...

Race Condition in performTraversals and onConfigurationChanged results in incorrect layout?

I've got a moderately complex Android application where I'm handling rotation myself through onConfigurationChanged rather than restarting the activity. After using the device or emulator for a while (many rotations) I start to see the application laying out incorrectly intermittently (it retains it's portrait width while in landscape m...

Webview orientation not working

Here is my code. everything works great except the orientation, it reloads every time I rotate the phone it reloads to the home page, it is a pain. can anyone tell me where the problem is. import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Intent; import android.content.res.Configuration; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.G...

Landscape iPad shows view in Portrait and then quickly rotates it to Landscape

I have a little issue with an application I'm building for the iPad. I have several views that are fixed in portrait mode, and others that can work in either portrait or landscape mode. Everything is fine - I have shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: giving me the correct results, and views do eventually end up in the right orientat...

How can I stop auto screen rotation in my Android app when unlocking the phone from standby

I have an android application that I want to always be running in landscape mode. I have the following code implemented to keep the app in landscape mode all the time: inside my activity in the Application Manifest android:screenOrientation="landscape" This seems to launch and keep the application in landscape view for the whole durat...

ModalViewController rotation issues within TabBarController

Hi all, I cant quite see why Im having this issue but I am..... Basically I have a Tabr bar controller with a navigationController in one of the tabs. In this particular tab I want the user to be able to rotate the device and see a completely different view, not the original view rotated! In order to achieve this (at full screen) I have...

ipad rotation hides elements in view !

OK here is a very basic iPad app that i am starting out with and I am already into issue. I have been doing iphone apps but in that too never implemented rotation things.. well here is the issue. This is a simple viewbased app build with interface builder that looks like this: when i run the app, the vertical orientation has both elem...