Question

Hii

I want to know the mechanism how the screen changes automatically from horizontally to vertically or vice-versa in android when we change the position of phone. Example in terms of coding would be highly appreciable.

Regards

Piyush

Answer 1

Screen is changed automatically from Portrait to Landscape and vice versa. So, in the most simple case you do not have to do anything. However, there is one important thing to take into account:

On orientation change, Android terminates your current activity and re-creates it again. So, if you have some important state variables, you must preserve them. In order to do that, you must override the function

@Override
public void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle stateToSave)

When instance is re-created, you have to check

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)

value of savedInstanceState. If it is null, it is first start. If it is not null, then it is re-creation caused by rotation, and you have to fetch state variable values from Bundle savedInstanceState.

If you need different layouts for Portrait/Landscape please check answer from Anand.