Android natural sensor orientation help

Question

I am trying to accomplish Reto Meier\'s recommended way for keeping the screen orientation from changing. The slides from his talk during Google IO (see #23) can be found in

Answer 1

All 30+ lines of code that currently are not working can be replaced with some XML values in your AndroidManifest.xml file.

We have all seen

and we all know that doesn't work well with tablets that have a default orientation of landscape. But how many of you have seen this?

Basically it makes it so that the device's orientation doesn't respond to the sensor. So if your default is landscape or portrait it won't change. I have tested it on my Droid X and on a Xoom and it works like I would have expected it to.

I hope this helps others.