Forced Orientation (android) not working in 1.7.2

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Forced Orientation (android) not working in 1.7.2

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Hi, I have used the custom androidManifest xml approach to force portrait orientation. It was working fine in 1.7.1 but isn't working in 1.7.2 is this an issue or did something change?

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Hi, I have the same problem: Works in 1.7.1, does not work in 1.7.2...

— commented 2 years ago by Tobias Jaecker
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— commented 2 years ago by Frank A

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Hi,

here is the solution (that worked for me):

You have to set the property "orientationModes" of your window object to [Ti.UI.PORTRAIT]...

AND... you have to do this outside of the createWindow Method. Only then the orientation is set. Here is my code:

var mainWindow = Ti.UI.createWindow({
            exitOnClose: true,
            name: 'mainWindow',
            windowSoftInputMode: Ti.UI.Android.SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_PAN,
            navBarHidden: true,
            backgroundColor: 'white'
        });
 
mainWindow.orientationModes = [Ti.UI.PORTRAIT];

Answer 2

i don't know how you are structuring your apps, but i'm including a file on top of the code for every window used. inside this file that get's included everytime i put

// set portrait mode to all windows automatically
try {
 
    Ti.UI.orientation = Ti.UI.PORTRAIT;
 
} catch (e) {
 
 
}

to automatically set orientation to potrait mode, the try-catch comes to use, if included on top of the app.js

Answer 3

Unfortunately, this is still broken in 1.7.2. In fact, it's even more broken in 1.7.2 as the camera is now opposite to the orientation the app starts in.