Android Question How is the phone held?

ac9ts

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• Jan 24, 2016

• #2

Unless you have a square screen:

B4X:

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

 

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grafsoft

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• Jan 24, 2016

• #3

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

 

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ac9ts

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• Jan 24, 2016

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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.

 

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stevel05

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• Jan 24, 2016

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

 

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grafsoft

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• Jan 24, 2016

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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.

 

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stevel05

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• Jan 24, 2016

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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/

 

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grafsoft

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• Jan 24, 2016

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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.

 

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