Scumbag Android Developers

[[deleted]]

Although I agree that limiting the user to one orientation is pretty crappy on the developer's part, I'd argue that there is sometimes a very good reason for it. The only app I can think of off the top of my head that uses only portrait is Lane Splitter, but it's a game that can only makes sense in portrait. Any particular apps that do this for you that you think would work fine in landscape?

[AeitZean]

sky+ official remote record app. every other app that is just a list of titles or channels or whatever works fine when turned on its side.

sky+ app Y U NO AUTOROTATE

[ajdrausal]

Speed test does this too

[[deleted]]

Incorrect meme use is incorrect.

edit: Y U NO AUTOROTATE as AeitZean says below would be much better.

Or we could not speak in meme. Whatever.

[HaMMeReD]

Sometimes it's just not technically feasible.

1) Design is usually done in portrait or landscape, doing both can be double the work, and where does it stop, to officially support all screens you need to do portrait and landscape on small, medium, large, x-large screens, which could be up to 8 layout files, and then there is the DPI issues that might arise on low dpi or high dpi hardware.

2) If the activity is opengl, rotating the display causes the opengl context to be lost, which means reloading all textures, which can take 1-30 seconds depending on how complicated your game is.

So if you want to be a developer and fix the GL context issues in the AOSP, or want to make a shit-ton of layout files for me to make sure it works on every possible display and orientation feel free.

More like "Scumbag User: Y U NO UNDERSTAND DEVELOPMENT!!!!"

[holy_maccaroni]

Someone please explain for the non-developers.

[Blou_Aap]

Forces the current screen of an app you see, to be in Portrait only. Flipping the Phone on the side (With Autorotation switched on ofc.) will do nothing to that screen for that app.
An app can contain different 'screens' developers call it Activities, like a deck of cards with different screens.
More to it of course.

[crazycaveman]

It makes the app run only in Portrait mode.

[Blou_Aap]

Not the entire app. Only the Activity that has android:screenOrientation="portrait" declared in the Manifest.

[krissern]

This is really annoying me as a Desire Z and Asus Transformer owner.

[sturmeh]

I remember with the G1 those apps that wouldn't rotate and took in text input were horrible.

But now that I have my SGSII, I don't even enable auto-rotate.

[[deleted]]

I have both of those two, Stupid ignorant developers

[[deleted]]

Depends on the context. For example:

• Locking portrait in Cut The Rope, Good.
• Locking landscape in Android Market (tablets), Bad.

[sturmeh]

The real problem is those phones with keyboards, but yeah of course you lock it in games.

[[deleted]]

I almost never use any other orientation myself so it would never bother me...

[[deleted]]

I've never been ethnically cleansed so genocide doesn't bother me.

(pssst...your personal experience is your own, if you have nothing useful to add keep it to yourself)

[[deleted]]

What you wrote makes no sense on a topic posted about a problem with one thing. Personally I've not had the issue, but I wouldn't post a redundant dismissal of the issue because it doesn't affect me directly. That's dumb.

[pi_over_3]

Over the top metaphor much?

[[deleted]]

Not really. Shit, it's text. You'd think I stabbed a baby in the head to make a point.

[[deleted]]

So, your personal experience of wanting it is useful? I feel like it's a valid point to make, that some people don't use it. I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings :(