Screen orientation on Raspberry Pi 3 with Android things

Question

I\'ve just bought a Raspberry Pi 3 with a 7\" Display touch screen and a casing.

Unfortunately, the casing can\'t allow me to rotate manually the screen so my apps a

Answer 1

Try this:

if (Build.DEVICE.equalsIgnoreCase("rpi3"))
    setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_REVERSE_LANDSCAPE);

Answer 2

I find out finally how to achieve it.

Solution found there : Android Things with Rasp3 7 inch touchscreen

You have to mount the boot partition from the sdcard on your laptop and edit the /boot/config.txt file and add the following line:

lcd_rotate=2

By adding this line both display and touchscreen will be rotated, compared to display_rotate=2 where only display is rotated and touchscreen remains upside down.

Answer 3

Google added new APIs in DP6 to control device settings, including display orientation: Android Things uses three different APIs to control settings for the screen (display), system time, and available locales.

Please open a new bug if these APIs do not behave as you expect.