Android Question How is the phone held?

[grafsoft]

I need to set the screeen orientation with phone.setscreenorientation

But I want to know how the phone is held, i.e. what the screen orientation (portrait, landscepe ...) would be if I did not set the screen orientation.

I hope it is understandable what I am writing.

 

[ac9ts]

Unless you have a square screen:

If 100%x > 100%y then
   ' In landscape mode
else
   ' In portrait mode
end if

 

[grafsoft]

Does not work, because with setscreenorientation you "freeze" the screen orientation

 

[ac9ts]

Maybe I misunderstood your question. I read it as you wanted to determine the screen orientation first (while the screen is still free to rotate) and then you would freeze it using SetScreenOrientation. The code I left will tell you the orientation; frozen or free to rotate.

 

[stevel05]

Try taking some code from here: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/freeze-orientation.41681/

 

[grafsoft]

Thanks, both of you. But I think there is no solution. Either I set the orientation, then it is fixed no matter how the device is held. Or I don't, then I can get the orientation.

 

[stevel05]

Ahh ok I understand now, You could probably use the Phone Sensors to do that : https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/orientation-and-accelerometer.6647/

 

[grafsoft]

Thank you, that would work! But my security app warns me that this app could be harmful and should be deinstalled. So I will leave the problem for now.