When my app's activity paused, I needed to find out if it was just a orientation change (as opposed to exiting the app or powering off the display).
My traditional code to detect current orientation had been:
...but when I called it from activity_pause, that just gave me the current (pre-pause) orientation. I wanted to know the "new" orientation (if any).
I found Pete Simpson's orientation code, and noticed that it used GetDeviceLayoutValues instead of activity values. It turns out that GetDeviceLayoutValues reports the "live" values (after the orientation change), so this code can tell me about the new orientation that will be in effect after Pause/Resume:
Hope this helps!
My traditional code to detect current orientation had been:
B4X:
Sub getCurrentOrientation As Int
If Activity.width < Activity.height Then
Log("getCurrentOrientation = portrait")
Return ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT
Else
Log("getCurrentOrientation = landscape")
Return ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE
End If
End Sub...but when I called it from activity_pause, that just gave me the current (pre-pause) orientation. I wanted to know the "new" orientation (if any).
I found Pete Simpson's orientation code, and noticed that it used GetDeviceLayoutValues instead of activity values. It turns out that GetDeviceLayoutValues reports the "live" values (after the orientation change), so this code can tell me about the new orientation that will be in effect after Pause/Resume:
B4X:
Sub getNewOrientation As Int
If GetDeviceLayoutValues.Width < GetDeviceLayoutValues.height Then
Log("getNewOrientation = portrait")
Return ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT
Else
Log("getNewOrientation = landscape")
Return ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE
End If
End SubHope this helps!
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