How to Lock Android App's Orientation to Portrait in Phones and Landscape in Tablets?

Question

I am developing an Android app whose orientation I don\'t want changed to landscape mode when the user rotates the device. Also, I want the locked orientation to be portrait

Answer 1

You have to add the android:screenOrientation="portrait" directive in your AndroidManifest.xml. This is to be done in your tag.

In addition, the Android Developers guide states that :

[...] you should also explicitly declare that your application requires either portrait or landscape orientation with the element. For example, .