Question

When rotating an Android device into Landscape mode, it can be in 2 different positions, from the device’s perspective, the bottom buttons could be either on the left or on the right.
Is there a way to differentiate between these 2 modes?
Either via onConfigurationChanged or via View.onSizeChanged I get the same result (obviously) as the device is on Landscape and the resolution is the same (800×480 in my case) for both “modes”.

Thanks

Answer 1

This will get the screen orientation:

    Display display = ((WindowManager) context.getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE)).getDefaultDisplay();
    int orientation = display.getRotation();

Then you can check it like this:

   if(orientation == Surface.ROTATION_90) {
      // do something
   } else if (orientation == Surface.ROTATION_270) {
      // do something else
   }