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Asked: 2026-05-27T00:21:47+00:00

So I’m making an application for Android and I want to force Landscape orientation

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So I’m making an application for Android and I want to force Landscape orientation for tablets and Portrait orientation for phones. However, it seems as though I can only do an orientation lock from what I’ve seen which defeats the purpose of wanting two separate orientations for devices.

Tablets: Landscape
Phones: Portrait

To put it more technical.

I have a layout in “res/layout-xlarge-land” for landscaping on the tablet and I have the original layout in “res/layout” and I just want to explicitly use layout-xlarge-land for the tablet. Nothing else, essentially ONLY using landscape for xlarge devices.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Setting a particular orientation based on device density may not work because there are phones which have higher densities than tablets.

    What I did was to disable the device’s orientation sensor by setting the attribute in the activity tag in the manifest file like this: 

    android:screenOrientation="nosensor"

    When you run your app, by default portrait orientation is set for phones and landscape for tablets(and hence it’ll select the xml file from layout-xlarge-land). And since you’ve set an orientation lock, it remains in this orientation.

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