How do you prevent the android screen from turning to the side?

Question

Whenever I rotate the device sideways, everything in my application also rotates and gets distorted. How to lock it vertically?

Answer 1

In yours, AndroidManifest.xmlset the focus on your event to portraitlike this.

<activity android:name=".YourActivity"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:screenOrientation="portrait">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
    </intent-filter>
</activity>

Answer 2

Whenever I rotate the device sideways, everything in my application also rotates and gets distorted. How to lock it vertically?

As a rule, you do not want to do this.

Firstly, some users have devices with physical keyboards that work only in landscape mode. Perhaps for your application this does not matter. However, any application that uses text input must support landscape mode for these users.

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Answer 3

, , android:screenOrientation.

Set the value portraitor landscape. Make sure he is not sensor .

Answer 4

Take a look at these SOqs:

• Turn off screen display on Android
• Android screen rotation prevention