Question

I want to enable orientation when rotating the device. Normally this happens automatically but in this locally sourced webview, it doesn’t happen. It loads in portrait but I would like it to change the orientation depending on how the device is tilted.

I have in the /assets folder adjectives.html

// In Activity

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    WebView wv = new WebView(this);
    setContentView(wv);
    wv.getSettings().setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
    wv.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/adjectives.html");

}


// In manifest
    <activity android:name=".WebViewActivity"
              android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden">    
    </activity>  

Any ideas?

Answer 1

If you use android:configChanges then the specific changes aren’t handled for you automatically and you must handle them yourself.

To do this, you must override onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) and check newConfig to see what the new Configuration is. If the change is related to orientation, you’ll need to set a new content view.

The easiest thing would be to remove orientation from android:configChanges (unless you have a particular reason not to) and put your WebView inside a layout XML file and use that for your content view in onCreate(...). This will allow the default ‘automatic’ handling of changes in orientation.