Question

I added a splash screen to my phonegap application by adding the super.setIntegerProperty("splashscreen", R.drawable.splash); line before the super.loadURL... line in the DefaultActivity.

Is there a way to lock only the splash screen’s orientation to portrait without locking the whole application?

Answer 1

If you are using a recent version of PhoneGap (DroidGap) or Apache Cordova you can force screen orientation to landscape by changing your screenOrientation in the Android.xml file. The resulting DroidGap “instantiation activity” should look something like this:

        <activity 
        android:name="org.apache.cordova.DroidGap" 
        android:label="@string/app_name" 
        android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"
        android:screenOrientation="landscape"           
        > 
        <intent-filter> 
        </intent-filter> 
    </activity>