Rotate View Hierarchy 90 degrees

Question

I am working on a subclass of FrameLayout that is supposed to rotate all of its children by 90 degrees. I am doing this to overcome the landscape-only camera limitation pres

Answer 1

Using API level 11 and later you can use the method setRotation(degreesFloat); to change the rotation of a view programmatically, or you can use the XML attribute android:rotation="" to change it in your XML. There are also methods/attributes for changing only the X or Y values of a view's rotation: Android Docs - View (setRotation).

So nowadays as long as you're using API level 11 or above, you should be able to apply the rotation to a wrapper layout node. However, you probably will also have to change the dimensions of the top-level layout to match the dimensions you desire after the rotation. I.e. if you have a portrait view w/ dimensions 800x1280, you'll have to change them to 1280x800 in order for it to line up after rotating to landscape.