Well, he did say he was making decisions about layouts, and layouts are customarily set in onCreate, and onCreate is clearly called with orientation changes unless you'd rather it not.
That said, I have authored at least two activities that have the same general layout for landscape and portrait, and I don't have those activities automatically respond to orientation changes, but I *do* dynamically create a set of views on demand differently depending on current orientation, which is not something I need to do in onCreate. So I need to check the orientation at the time those views are created. Doug On Feb 2, 7:08 pm, Indicator Veritatis <[email protected]> wrote: > Shouldn't he be listening for the change configuration broadcast event > rather than just checking a flag? Or perhaps he should declare that he > handles it himself, and handle it in onConfigurationChanged(config). > In that case, he can read the new configuration from config. > > But when I see people simply asking how to check the current > configuration (in this case screen orientation), it -sounds- like they > have misunderstood how Android approaches this issue. Then they will > be blind-sided when they find onCreate() being called when the user > tilts his phone. > > On Feb 2, 3:50 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If you load a layout resource via setContentView() or a > > LayoutInflator, Android will choose the right resource automatically > > based on orientation. > > > If you are generating your UI directly in Java code, either switch to > > using layout resources, or use the orientation field on the > > Configuration object to find out what the current orientation is. > > > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:45 PM, kiros88 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi so im going to make a layout for both horizontal and vertical > > > layout but im trying to figure out right now is how u make the system > > > know when i guess u create it? is there a way to check programmically? > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected] > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > -- > > Mark Murphy (a Commons > > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > > Android Training in London:http://bit.ly/smand1andhttp://bit.ly/smand2 > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
