Question

I’m Displaying a video in my application ..i want to force the activity to open in portrait mode , later the user can switch between orientation (Landscape and portrait ).

Can i do that?

Answer 1

Yes you can do that. You have several options to do that. I’ll get you some examples..

Here is one programmatically:

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT)

And with this you can set it in the manifest:

<activity 
android:name=".MyActivity" 
android:screenOrientation="portrait"
android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|keyboard"/>

But please search for similar questions next time, this question was asked many times before.

EDIT:

Just set

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_SENSOR);

from the point you want the sensor to take over the setting again.