[android-developers] Re: In-App Billing forces screen orientation change

As much as i hate hacky solutions as the next guy, if you are running
a business you must sometimes use hacks to work around bugs. You
cannot wait around filing a bug report that may or may not be fixed in
this decade.

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> Will try with reporting the issue, but just cannot wait till anyone
> address it. Zsolt's solution is not elegant at all, but the only quick
> one I can imagine.
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> Thanks!
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> On Aug 27, 8:20 am, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:59 PM, groob <krzysztof.grobe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > OK, this is all I was trying to get at - the display is corrupted - that's
> > your problem. OK.
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> > Usually a "problem" on this group is a crash or not knowing how to achieve
> > specific functionality and I was not understanding how this orientation
> > change was adversely effecting your app's functionality.
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> > If I understand you correctly now, there is no adverse effect (your app
> > doesn't crash for example), but you don't want it to happen because it looks
> > bad to you. Correct?
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> > Well if that's the case, I don't know. If no one else has an answer for you,
> > I'd check b.android.com and see if it's filed as a bug and if not, maybe
> > file one. Of course, I suspect this is intended behavior - the app on top is
> > what determines the current orientation and the phone can only have one
> > configuration at a time, so the top-most one takes over - I think.
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> > P.S. - Even if your app is never intended to be used in landscape, you still
> > have to handle properly restoring your app's state, since your app will go
> > through the same cycle via other means (like pressing Home and coming back
> > to it a while later). So you may just have to bite the bullet here and
> > handle the orientation change.
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> > TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago
> > transit tracking app for Android-powered devices

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