Is there really not an app for this? I've downloaded apps for my MyTouch to easily disable rotation, but they only disable landscape. I really wish I could find a way to disable portrait orientation.
bump at this. i've been wondering the same thing.
yea i like this too. only apps i ever auto rotate, maps, messaging (its a myTouch portrait is just stupid for messaging) , and browser.
Hi,
is there a tweak / app for android to create a whitelist of apps which are allowed(!) to rotate the screen?
For instance, I only want my navigation app to be able to rotate the screen.
Thanks!
Hi,
is there a way to limit where the auto rotate feature functions, rather than completely disabling it?
About the only place I use it is in the gallery, and so it's quite annoying when it happens by mistake in the market, for instance.
You can buy Tasker in the market and create a rule to only allow auto-rotate for x app, or simply put a widget on your homescreen and remember to de/activate it when neccesary.
keemyb said:
You can buy Tasker in the market and create a rule to only allow auto-rotate for x app, or simply put a widget on your homescreen and remember to de/activate it when neccesary.
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Brilliant - I had never heard of tasker, but it's a really powerful tool. Thanks
My wife has a "dumb" phone, but honestly as far as usability it's pretty great, and this is a feature I'd love to see on android phones:
Is it possible for a Launcher/Home app to have 2 remembered configurations for widgets, and for it to remember them and toggle between them by autosensing it's position?
So Example:
Is it possible that in portrait mode, your phone shows a dialer widget on your homescreen. When you turn the phone to landscape mode, the homescreen shows an SMS widget INSTEAD of the dialer widget. When you turn the phone back to portrait, the widget gets switched back to the dialer widget?
I think that as far as usability, that'd be awesome!
Never saw anything like that on Android.
But yes, I assume that is possible. I guess Apps have access to accelerometer and it wouldn't even need root.
Thanks!
I think it'd be awesome. As great and versatile as our phones are, let's be honest; they're phones. I think it'd be great if all you had to do was unlock your phone, and voila: you're greeted with a dialer widget (which already exist BTW). Don't need to make a phone call? No problem, but turn the phone into landscape mode (b/c let's be honest, most of us probably send SMS in landscape mode) and AGAIN Voila! there's a texting widget instead of the dialer widget (which I think also exist). The only thing to implement would be the "autosensing". If a Launcher like LPP or GO Launcher would implement something like that... it'd be money!
You could implement it on the widget itself so it works on any launcher.
Yes, it's certainly possible.
You'd have to save 2 sets of widgets and then code a listener to check whether the phone's in portrait or landscape and load the correct one.
Saying that, it's beyond my coding abilities, but i'm sure someone could do it
It is not only possible, but, from what I can tell, quite easy
all you would need to do is set up an OrientationEventListener
and then create a OnOrientationChanged method that would well.. change what is displayed
I'm not sure if it would be possible for do without using a different launcher but I'm sure it could be incorporated into something like launcherpro or adw launcher.
I might look into creating a widget that switches from phone to sms
that would be pretty cool
I'll let you know if I get anywhere with it
+1
Good idea! I hope someone could do it. That would be awesome.
Tasker is the answer!
I have Tasker and have done an almost identical thing. Create a Task which senses the orientation is portrait mode to change a shortcut on the homescreen to link to the phone dialler app. Have another task which changes the shortcut to the sms app if its in landscape mode.
Should be relatively simple.
Tasker is about £3 so a little more than most apps but is so configurable should pay for itself as it can replace a lot of other apps I have used.
I tried a couple force rotation apps (Ultimate Rotation and Rotation Manager). When the home screens & lock screen rotate, neither of them do it right. The icons/ folder are placed off the screen. Anyone get something to work? I'd prefer to stay on Touchwiz, because I really like the calendar widget.
Sorry for posting in the wrong forum early.