Blocking screen rotation - Android

Question

I would like to keep the screen in a portrait position and not allowed screen rotation in my app. How should I do that ?

Here is how you disable landspace http://thegeekyland.blogspot.com/2014/06/activity-screen-rotationorientation.html — Arlind, Dec 04 '15 at 19:10

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 12 '14 at 19:16

I can recall two ways, either try putting a ScreenOrientation in your manifest :

android:screenOrientation="portrait" // OR "landscape"

Or just do the following in code :

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT); // ORActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE

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