Question

This morning I came up with a problem trying to handle the onConfigurationChanged event. The problem is that the method, which I override, is not getting called when I change the orientation of the phone. Not getting called at all.

I’ve put android:configChanges="orientation" on the activity defined in the manifest as mentioned on the android documentation, but this don’t make a difference.

Have you come up with this problem?

Answer 1

The problem was that if you use this method

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);

to force the orientation of your Activity to portrait mode, you’re not candidate to receive orientation changes.

So the solution is to not setRequestOrientation to a particular mode. But instead use SCREEN_ORIENTATION_SENSOR.