I think that Dianne said that you get to build robotic arms. I, for one, welcome our new robotic arm overlords!
-g On May 9, 12:03 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > Orientation is global. The top-most app controls the orientation. If your > app is not on the top, you can't force an orientation upon the app that is > currently on top. > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Morgan <morgan.kelly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you everybody for your insight. I'm still at something of a loss > > here, I'm (literally) about to build a few robotic arms to accomplish > > this, but before I do I would like to hear from someone explicitly > > that this can not be done. > > > I've attempted to launch an installed app which itself forces > > orientation change programmatically, but that only affects the > > orientation of that program instance, and the underlying orientation > > remains unchanged, i.e. if you open a browser instance on top of it, > > it retains the original orientation. > > > The tests are by necessity comprised of some real-world material, and > > would be invalidated if they were re-instantiated in a customized > > form. Once again, thanks for those that have commented so far, > > > Sincerely, > > Morgan Kelly > > > On Apr 17, 8:24 pm, Diego Torres Milano <dtmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Flip command in monkey is expected to work only in emulator and Dream > > > (see MonkeyFlipEvent.java). > > > > On Apr 15, 4:56 pm, Bill Napier <nap...@android.com> wrote: > > > > > Then again, I just tried it with the Nexus S and it doesn't work. It > > may > > > > work on devices with keyboards like Droid. Here's how I tested it: > > > > > $ adb shell "monkey --port 9999" > > > > $ adb forward tcp:9999 tcp:9999 > > > > $ telnet localhost 9999 > > > > Connected to localhost. > > > > Escape character is '^]'. > > > > flip open > > > > OK > > > > flip close > > > > OK > > > > > And nothing happened on my phone. It may actually work on a device > > that has > > > > a flip out keyboard (G1 or droid for example), but I don't have one > > handy. > > > > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Bill Napier <nap...@android.com> > > wrote: > > > > > It looks like the "flip" command from the protocol that monkeyrunner > > uses > > > > > may do it for you. It looks like it never got added to MonkeyDevice > > to be > > > > > exposed as part of the monkeyrunner API. > > >http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/development.git;a=blob;f=cm... > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:26 AM, lbendlin <l...@bendlin.us> wrote: > > > > > >> Well, the monkey can do it (change orientation, that is) so you > > might be > > > > >> able to learn how to do it from the monkey source code. > > > > > >> -- > > > > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > >> Groups "Android Developers" group. > > > > >> To post to this group, send email to > > android-developers@googlegroups.com > > > > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > >> android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > > >> For more options, visit this group at > > > > >>http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > > > > -- > > > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time > > > > > to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on > > > > > public forums, where I and others can see and answer them > > > > > -- > > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time > > > > to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on > > > > public forums, where I and others can see and answer them > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
