Need help in determining if an android(G1) is an landscape mode or not? It would be great if someone could point me to some code snippets or a place in the online manual.

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Probably not the best way, but a working one: (put this to onCreate of your Activity):


There is also a probably better method


int SCREEN_ORIENTATION_BEHIND Constant corresponding to behind in the screenOrientation attribute. 3
int SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE Constant corresponding to landscape in the screenOrientation attribute. 0
int SCREEN_ORIENTATION_NOSENSOR Constant corresponding to sensor in the screenOrientation attribute. 5
int SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT Constant corresponding to portrait in the screenOrientation attribute. 1
int SCREEN_ORIENTATION_SENSOR Constant corresponding to sensor in the screenOrientation attribute. 4
int SCREEN_ORIENTATION_UNSPECIFIED Constant corresponding to unspecified in the screenOrientation attribute. -1
int SCREEN_ORIENTATION_USER Constant corresponding to user in the screenOrientation attribute. 2 0x00000002

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plusminus

plusminus wrote:Probably not the best way, but a working one: (put this to onCreate of your Activity):

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1.         final Display defaultDisplay = getWindow().getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay();
2.                 final int h= defaultDisplay.getHeight();
3.         final int w = defaultDisplay.getWidth();
4.         this.mIsLandScapeMode = (w > h); // Landscape  

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int SCREEN_ORIENTATION_BEHIND Constant corresponding to behind in the screenOrientation attribute. 3
int SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE Constant corresponding to landscape in the screenOrientation attribute. 0
int SCREEN_ORIENTATION_NOSENSOR Constant corresponding to sensor in the screenOrientation attribute. 5
int SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT Constant corresponding to portrait in the screenOrientation attribute. 1
int SCREEN_ORIENTATION_SENSOR Constant corresponding to sensor in the screenOrientation attribute. 4
int SCREEN_ORIENTATION_UNSPECIFIED Constant corresponding to unspecified in the screenOrientation attribute. -1
int SCREEN_ORIENTATION_USER Constant corresponding to user in the screenOrientation attribute. 2 0x00000002

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plusminus

I know this thread is long time ago, but i still have a question regrading to it. How can i determine the screen mode during the application runtime? It seems like this method only work during the oncreate function first call, so we know the initial mode of the screen. How do we know that screen changing while we are running the application?
Thank you very much.

By default, your activity will be destroyed and a new instance created (if needed) when a configuration change (such as screen orientation) occurs, so the onCreate method will be called each time the screen orientation changes.

But you can manage this changes, avoiding the destroying of the activity. In this case you would receive a call to your onConfigurationChanged(Configuration) method.

You can find more information in the Activity class documentation page

Thanks I get it