Android Question Orientation in standby causes my module to reload

[thughesimsuk]

I have written a program in the wonderful B4A! I have a screen that is portrait only that loads records, if I press the power button and go into standby mode I can rotate the screen and change the orientation to landscape then if I unlock the standby mode the module reloads the records again. If I lock the tablet in portrait then unlock it in portrait all is ok. Can someone help? I am using a Galaxy Note 10.1.

This is causing frustration for my users, any help would be most appreciated.

Tom

 

[NJDude]

Changing the orientation causes the activity to be recreated, you could lock the app to 1 orientation only or create a flag that will be used to indicate that the data has been already loaded.

 

[thughesimsuk]

Thanks NJDude a regular name I see on the forums! The problem with the orientation lock is that my program has sections that are portrait or landscape. Is there a way you can invoke an orientation lock from the application? i.e. If the activity is paused then lock the tablet orientation then unlock it on the resume.

Thanks

 

[NJDude]

If by sections you mean some activities in portrait and others in landscape, you can actually lock the individual activities to the orientation you need, depends on how your app is designed.

 

[thughesimsuk]

I did mean activities, I have put the required orientations in the manifest,

SetActivityAttribute(Audit_1, android:screenOrientation, "landscape")
SetActivityAttribute(Audit_2, android:screenOrientation, "portrait")
SetActivityAttribute(Audit_3, android:screenOrientation, "portrait")

Which works a charm. I just need to somehow temporarily lock the device to a particular orientation when the device is put in standby to stop users destroying the activity by changing the orientation. Does that make sense?

 

[NJDude]

I understand what you mean, but locking the orientation doesn't seem practical to me, I would rather use a flag.

 

[thughesimsuk]

** FIXED **
So in my manifest I have the following code,

SetActivityAttribute(Audit, android:screenOrientation, "portrait")
SetActivityAttribute(Audit, android:configChanges, "keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize")

So my "Audit" activity is fixed in portrait and the second line prevents the activity from being destroyed if someone locks the tablet and then changes the orientation.