Detect layout type (landscape/portrait)

There will be a time you need to define your application GUI both in landscape and portrait (just rotate the phone).

Luckily, every droid has the built-in function to detect layout type. What you need to implement is:

1. Create two main.xml files for layout in both case: landscape and portrait.

2. Put those two main.xml in resources according to its type:

/res/layout-land/main.xml

/res/layout-port/main.xml

Just build and try your application GUI in runtime.

 

In case, you want to detect the timing when layout type change and you want to do some additional works in coding, you might wanna follow these steps:

1. Add android:configChanges=”orientation” to AndroidManifest.xml

2. Detect the orientation change:

@Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
      Configuration c = getResources().getConfiguration();

      if(c.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT ) {
        // portrait

      } else if(c.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE ){
        // landscape

      }
}

Hope you enjoy it!

 

Cheers,
Pete Houston