[android-developers] Re: How to detect screen rotation through 180 degrees from landscape to landscape orientation?

Read the accelerometer values. They should be distinct enough to
conclude the device orientation with confidence.


On May 18, 5:58 am, arsalank2 <arsala...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I also need it for the same reasons and unable to find a workaround. I
> also notice similar behavior if switched between portrait and portrait
> inverted, the onConfigurationChanged() is not called.
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> On Mar 29, 2:21 am, Mark Carter <mjc1...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> > In my case, I need to for the camera (otherwise the image will appear
> > upside down).
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> > Some apps (like Paper Camera) get around this by not allowing the screen to
> > rotate, and so the SurfaceView (used by the Camera) is more like a window
> > (through the device).
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> > At risk of this post going off on a tangent, the "window" strategy makes
> > sense. In other words, when the user rotates the screen, leave the
> > SurfaceView as it is and only reposition/redraw the controls. I imagine
> > this is quite hard (because you would be effectively drawing the controls
> > upside down), and so not worth the effort.
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> > Other reasons for caring about which side the screen is up, include
> > anything that uses the orientation sensor, such as games.
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> > On Thursday, March 29, 2012 2:06:51 PM UTC+8, Zsolt Vasvari wrote:
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> > > Just curious, why do you care which side of the screen is up?
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> > > On Thursday, March 29, 2012 9:57:14 AM UTC+8, Mark Carter wrote:
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> > >> I've seen a few other questions similar to this but no answers.
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> > >> Rotating from portrait to landscape (either direction) and back again, we
> > >> get the helpful call to onConfigurationChanged().
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> > >> However, when rotating from landscape to landscape (through 180 degrees)
> > >> onConfigurationChanged() is not called.
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> > >> I've seen mention of using OrientationEventListener but this seems flakey
> > >> to me because you can rotate quickly around without triggering a display
> > >> orientation change.
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> > >> I've tried adding a layout change listener, but with no success.
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> > >> So the question is, how to reliably detect such a change in landscape
> > >> orientation?
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> > >> Note: I also posted this on SO:
> > >>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9909037/how-to-detect-screen-rotat...

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