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Android Change Device Orientation?

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Raonak

Guest
Hi, i'm developing a game for android, and am wondering if there's any way to change the device orientation?

I know you can uncheck orientations in the configuration menu... but my game supports both landscape and portrait, and in the case where the user has locked the orientation through the OS, is there a way to grammatically change the orientation?

e.g. User has locked the phone orientation to portrait, but wants to play the game in landscape.

is there some equivalent of os_set_orientation()?
 

Greenwitch

Member
Landscape is just 'portrait' but rotated. To set a mobile game landscape, you just treat portrait as if it was landscape and just draw your game in that manner, a.k.a simply rotated to whichever side you want it at. You'd then make your own function that acts as a 'switch' between these modes.
 
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Raonak

Guest
Cool, i think i can manage that with view rotate. But do you know if there's any way of changing gui rotation? That's gonna be the hard part...
 
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