Hello,
I had the same issue with determination of orientation for different
devices: xoom, samsug galaxy tab, and samsung galaxy tab 10.1
The main trick, is that devices has theirs own 'natural'/'default'
orientation. This orientation has index 0. For 10.1 samsung it is
LANDSCAPE.
For samsung
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Yahor Paulavets
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I have investigated and implemented the best way for determination of
orientation:
http://softteco.blogspot.com/2011/08/universal-way-to-detect-landscape-mode.html
That's exactly what I ended up doing, comparing
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
Because we are sometimes dumb. That is why it is deprecated and replaced
with a method named getRotation() in current versions of the platform.
A nice person spent a long time harassing me about this change because
First, I recommend you try to figure out the screen by getting the
DisplayMetrics instead. Don't use the orientation/rotation. The
device implementer gets to decide what the rotation means, so the
screen rotation is fundamentally divorced from the concept of
landscape or portrait (yep, I've seen
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote:
From where I sit Android is becoming really hard to keep up with. I
have a ton of 2.1 users still so I need to stay with API version 7.
The current API is 13, that's almost double the version I need to stay
at. I can't
Is it really true that documentation is disappearing for old APIs?
Then launch your Android SDK and AVD Manager and download the old
stuff. It goes back to level 7, which in turn includes documentation
for a lot of the old, deprecated stuff.
That said, now that you mention that and I see that
For real fun, try last minute checkins before a release comprised entirely of
misleading deprecation annotations. Great fun.
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This isn't orientation, though, this is rotation. So your Tab in landscape
is Surface.ROTATION_0, while your phone in portrait is also going to
correspond to Surface.ROTATION_0. It's not the API that is lying to you.
On Sunday, August 21, 2011 1:25:12 AM UTC-4, Greg Donald wrote:
Using API
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Adam Ratana adam.rat...@gmail.com wrote:
This isn't orientation, though, this is rotation.
I wonder why they named the method getOrientation() then?
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Because we are sometimes dumb. That is why it is deprecated and replaced
with a method named getRotation() in current versions of the platform.
A nice person spent a long time harassing me about this change because they
insistent that we were evil vile losers who didn't understand what app
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