+1. We planned to make this cross-platform sometime ago, but nothing came of it (see comments): https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-751
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Michal Mocny <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, the use cases are real, but I thought it was odd that we only have it > for iOS. Also odd that there is overhead for every rotation for every app, > regardless of using this feature. We could perhaps add a config.xml flag > to disable it by default, but its probably best to just replace it > altogether with a plugin that works on multiple platforms. > > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Shazron <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If we have a suitable replacement to point users to - I'm all for it. The > > use case for this is if a user has an app that is portrait only, but > needs > > to display something (video?) in landscape thus "overriding" the app > > default.s > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Michal Mocny <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Yeah, sorry, I meant the JS method: window.shouldRotateToOrientation is > > > undocumented and not supported on other platforms. > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Andrew Grieve <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > I think he means it's undocumented within Cordova's docs. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Ian Clelland <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'm not sure what you mean by "Undocumented" in this case -- it's > > not a > > > > > private API that would get you booted from the App Store; it's a > > > > documented > > > > > method on UIView, although it's been deprecated recently.[1] > > > > > > > > > > Agreed that supporting the screen-orientation spec is probably the > > way > > > to > > > > > go in the future, on any platforms that can support it. > > > > > > > > > > [1] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/UIViewController_Class/DeprecationAppendix/AppendixADeprecatedAPI.html#jumpTo_9 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Michal Mocny <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > iOS seems to have an undocumented "feature" to call into > javascript > > > > > before > > > > > > every device orientation change (pasted below for your viewing > > > > pleasure). > > > > > > > > > > > > I can't find any such similar functionality on other platforms, > > > should > > > > it > > > > > > be removed? Likely we will want to write a screen orientation ( > > > > > > http://www.w3.org/TR/screen-orientation/) plugin instead > > > (eventually). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > - > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation > > > > > > { > > > > > > // First, ask the webview via JS if it supports the new > > > orientation > > > > > > NSString* jsCall = [NSString stringWithFormat: > > > > > > @"window.shouldRotateToOrientation && > > > > > > window.shouldRotateToOrientation(%d);" > > > > > > , [self > > > > mapIosOrientationToJsOrientation:interfaceOrientation]]; > > > > > > NSString* res = [webView > > > > > > stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:jsCall]; > > > > > > > > > > > > if ([res length] > 0) { > > > > > > return [res boolValue]; > > > > > > } > > > > > > > > > > > > // if js did not handle the new orientation (no return > value), > > > use > > > > > > values from the plist (via supportedOrientations) > > > > > > return [self supportsOrientation:interfaceOrientation]; > > > > > > } > > > > > > > > > > > > -Michal > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
