Hi,

I know this topic has already been discussed but it still can't find a method that tells me which tipe of orientation is currently being used.

For example i use android:screenOrientation= "portrait" in my manifest file

When i change the orientation on emulator i would like to rotate just some of the elements in my game like text that is drawn on canvas. For that i must know when the emulator orientation has been changed or the phone has been tilted. is that possible?

add android:configChanges node to your Activity's manifest node



then override this method on your Acrivity




http://developer.android.com/reference/ ... ionChanges


bye

Another neat way to do it:



Now lets code the night away!

Thanks guys

Ok so sansis's method works but it restarts my application and the performance on my game in landscape is at 50% don't know why.. i am building on lunarlander example

So i tried adding android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden" because android:configChanges="orientation" had no effect
so what should i write in the overidden

@Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {


}
because if i just set some variable or if i do nothing it crashes..
help?

waducu wrote:Ok so sansis's method works but it restarts my application and the performance on my game in landscape is at 50% don't know why.. i am building on lunarlander example

So i tried adding android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden" because android:configChanges="orientation" had no effect
so what should i write in the overidden

@Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {


}
because if i just set some variable or if i do nothing it crashes..
help?

Hi,
Some time ago I solved the same problem using these tags in manisfest: android:screenOrientation="portrait" android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden"

Hope it helps

"Hi,
Some time ago I solved the same problem using these tags in manisfest: android:screenOrientation="portrait" android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden"

Hope it helps"

Dude good combination,
with these changes and without overidding onConfigChanges() when i press Fn+7 on emulator it rotates the screen without restarting my game
But, when that happens i must be alerted some how in order to rotate the texts as well.. how can i do that?

an ugly solution would be a backgroundthread doing my solution would still work. If the "android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden" makes my solution not work, you could instead measure screen height/width-ratio to detect rotation. I think it would work, but its not pretty. Perhaps someone can come up with a better solution

i Too have same problem ,


any one here to solve this issue?

"an ugly solution would be a backgroundthread doing my solution would still work. If the "android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden" makes my solution not work, you could instead measure screen height/width-ratio to detect rotation. I think it would work, but its not pretty. Perhaps someone can come up with a better solution"

I can't do that since the ratio keeps its value:
android:screenOrientation = "portrait"
android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden"

So when the screen rotates so does the center of coordinates but maybe i didn't understand your ideea

Another lead would be to use this code in the activity class together with the changes above

public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);

global_variable++;

}

So i now know when the screen rotates but i don't know from witch side to witch..
I could ask the user to tell me if he sees the text rotated or not and then each time the global variable increments i know if i have to rotate the text or not..
But i must do this without feedback from the user
Any suggestions?