screen-orientation

Windows Mobile: dealing with screen orientation and resolution

Hello! I want to deveplop an app for Windows Mobile 5.0 and above that can detect screen resolution and orientation. This part is easy, I know how to do it. The other part, reallocate controls process, is more difficult for me (not very difficult). I wonder if there is a design pattern or a design guideline about how to do this process...

How to control screen-orientation for iPhone in web app

I have a very basic web page that uses flot to create a canvas based graph (similar to what SO uses for reputation graph). In the case of a PC display, it should simply output normally, with a the width (x-axis) being 1.6 times the height. But for iPhones, I would like it if, rather than having it overflow in "canvas" orientation, the ...

iPhone prevent rotation of keyboard to landscape...

So, I'm putting some controls over an MPMoviePlayerController and I'm intending this to be used in portrait mode, simply by using video that is shot vertically. My only problem is that for text entry the keyboard comes up in landscape. Now, I realize that there is an undocumented way to set the orientation of the player, but I'd rather...

How to change emulator screen orientation?

How do we change emulator screen orientation to landscape or portrait? ...

Notification on screen orientation change

Windows 7, .NET 3.5 I need to know when netbook (small laptop, but normal Windows 7) changes orientation (there is a button on the netbook that is used to switch landscape/portrait orientation). This tells me the orientation, but I am looking for the change notification event: System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation.ScreenOrientation ...

appWidget Orientation Code

I have code in an appwidget that I want to run when the phone's orientation changes on the home screen, ie like when the keyboard flips out. I have an image that I want to change in an imageview in my appwidget. I can't use different layouts linked to the orientation (ie "layout" and "layout-land") because I don't know the name of the im...

From WebView Errors to ImageView Cover-ups to Screen Orientation

It all started with a simple WebView within an Android app. This view loads info from a public URL. Nothing unusual there. However ... if there should be a network interruption, you can easily end up with an error displayed prominently in the WebView. Well, that's no good, right? So I searched the docs and elsewhere for a way to suppr...

Android: callback for search widget opened and dismissed

I have a screen layout that is forced to be potrait mode. Because it is very complex I don't have the time right now to invest creating a separate one for landscape mode. It also doesn't make much sense for my type of application. However, for input fields it's better to provide a landscape mode, because some phones have a hardware keyb...

Set ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE not working Android

@Override public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration _newConfig) { if (_newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE) { Toast toast = Toast.makeText(this, "test orientation_landscape", Toast.LENGTH_LONG); toast.show(); setContentView(R.layout.proceed); } if (...

Webview resizes automatically to portrait and landscape view in iphone

Hi I am new to iphone development.In my app, i want to display the web view in device with c portrait Orientation.It should also support landscape orientation. I used the below method but there is no expected output. - (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation { return (interfaceOrien...

set interface orientation on iPhone private API

Can anyone confirm that [[UIDevice currentDevice] setOrientation:UIDeviceOrientationPortrait]; will get your app rejected by Apple. Is there a good replacement available? ...

Gracefully handling screen orientation change during activity start

I'm trying to find a way to properly handle setting up an activity where its orientation is determined from data in the intent that launched it. This is for a game where the user can choose levels, some of which are int portrait orientation and some are landscape orientation. The problem I'm facing is that setRequestedOrientation(Activit...

Android: Determine when an app is being finalized vs destroyed for screen orientation change

Hi all, I am relatively new to the Android world and am having some difficultly understanding how the whole screen orientation cycle works. I understand that when the orientation changes from portrait to landscape or vice versa the activity is destroyed and then re-created. Thus all the code in the onCreate function will run again. So he...

Don't want activity to be destroyed/created when phone is rotated.

I have tried to freeze orientation setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT); but thought screen stays in portrait orientation, the activity is still recreated. Any ideas how to solve this? ...

Android widget different portrait and landscape orientation

Hi all, I have a (hopefully) a relatively simple question. How do I tell Android which layout to use for portrait and which layout to use for landscape orientation on my AppWidget? Thanks in advance! ...

How to stop rotation of ABPersonViewController & ABNewPersonViewController in Landscape mode in iphone

I am using a ABPersonViewController & ABNewPersonViewController class by pushview controller. ABPersonViewController *pvc = [[ABPersonViewController alloc] init]; [pvc setPersonViewDelegate:self]; [[self navigationController] pushViewController:pvc animated:YES]; In ABPersonViewController & ABNewPersonViewController page it is display...

iphone/ipad orientation handling

This is more of a general question for people to provide me guidance on, basically Im learning iPad/iPhone development and have finally come across the multi-orientation support question. I have looked up a fair amount of doco, and my book "Beginning iPhone 3 Development" has a nice chapter on it. But my question is this, if I was to p...

How to make changes in Screen Orientations in iPhone?

Hi, I have developed a application with UIViewController with two Buttons placed on fixed frame size. How to apply Screen Orientations to my application? ...

How to implement UIViewController rotation in response to orientation changes?

My app has about 10 different UIViewControllers, just one of which I want to switch to landscape mode if the device is rotated. (All the rest, I want to keep in portrait.) In order to implement rotation on that one view, I needed to implement its controller's 'shouldAutorotate' method and return YES. Since this view is accessed via a na...

MPMoviePlayerController fullscreen quirk in iPad

I want to show a MPMoviePlayerController in a view controller and let the user toggle full screen with the default controls, like the YouTube app. I'm using the following code in a bare-bones example: - (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; self.player = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] init]; self.player.contentURL = the...