How to rotate screen on android?

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• pie Member

  January 12

  It worked for me last time I tried: in Project Properties is "Autorotation - All orientations" enabled?

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• unlying Guru

  January 12

  Yes, i set all orientations and it still do not work. Btw html5 works even with Normal orientation.

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• pie Member

  January 12

  I think that html5 orientation is handled by the browser, it might have nothing to do with gideros.
  Does it work if you set your app in landscape in project properties?
  Also, take a look here:
  https://forum.gideros.rocks/discussion/7269/code-for-landscape-or-portrait
  
  https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Application:getDeviceOrientation
  
  and you could also listen to

  stage:addEventListener( Event.APPLICATION_RESIZE, self.onApplicationResize, self )

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• unlying Guru

  January 12

  Yeah, I already read that.
  But i was impressed how it works in browser and wonder about possibility to make it works on mobile same way
  
  

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• unlying Guru

  January 12 edited January 12

  Ok, i'm trying to make it works with code(but still sad that it's not working like in a web).
  
  But it's not working:( Or i'm doing something wrong.

  print(application:getOrientation())
  application:setOrientation("portrait")
  print(application:getOrientation())

  returns

  landscapeLeft 2
  landscapeLeft 2

  snippet by sinistersoft works even stranger
  
  

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• pie Member

  January 12

  It seems that application:getDeviceOrientation() doesn't read correctly.
  
  I wonder if that happens since https://forum.gideros.rocks/discussion/8757/gideros-2024-6-released
  
  
  This always reads "portrait" for me even changing player > hardware
  
  
  

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  January 16

  Honestly I've always found all this orientation stuff rather difficult to understand.
  Internally Gideros deals with three orientations which are:
  - hardware orientation: supposed to be the fixed native/hardware orientation of the display
  - device orientation: the current orientation of the device, that is whether you currently hold your phone (if allowed to riotate) in portrait or landscape mode or upside down
  - orientation: your app orientation
  
  Since 2024.6 I tried to stick to the definitions above for every platform (android would soemtimes change hardware orientation along device orientation, or sometimes even app orientation, but perhaps I missed some changes.
  
  In the player menu, hardware orientation actually changes the fixed hardware orientation, not the device orientation. Thinking about it, it looks wrong...
  

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  January 16

  Looking at what I changed in 2024.6, I actually made it work as @unlying expects it (I think), that is if you enable autorotation, then app orientation will automatically change to match deviceOrientation. This also means that you no longer can change your app orientation directly, instead calling setOrientation() requests the device to change its orientation first.

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• pie Member

  January 16

  Thank you @hgy29 , I assumed that changing Hardware Orientation in gideros player was like changing the physical orientation of your device.
  
  However to answer @unlying I just tried this on android player on my device with gideros 2025.1.1 and getDeviceOrientation works as expected.
  
  What I am not sure is why I have to call application setOrientation to rotate the screen, but I might have built my player with "normal orientation" instead of "all orientations" enabled in project properties.

  local orientation = application:getDeviceOrientation()   local demoText = TextField.new(nil, orientation) demoText:setScale(4) demoText:setPosition(200, 200) stage:addChild(demoText)     function appResize(event) local tmpOrientation = application:getDeviceOrientation() if tmpOrientation ~= orientation then orientation = tmpOrientation demoText:setText(orientation) application:setOrientation(orientation) end print(orientation, tmpOrientation) end   stage:addEventListener(Event.APPLICATION_RESIZE, appResize )

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