landscape mode in tablet only

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My app has to support landscape/portrait mode only for tablets, phones will only support portrait mode. What is the best way to implement this?

Options that I am considering:

a) using two apk files, one for phones and one for tablets. The one for phone will lock landscape mode in the manifest

2) using one apk file. Detect that device is a phone, lock landscape mode inside each activity.

any advice will be appreciated.

Regards

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androidlandscapetablet
Use Fragments API, it was design to handle such problems efficiently. – Vladimir Ivanov
the app is almost done. Fragments would require to redo the UI. This is not an option. Thanks – omega
I had the same issue, and just wrote a blog entry on this subject, where I give three different solutions. androidblogger.blogspot.com/2011/08/… – alocaly
This solution worked for me: stackoverflow.com/a/60381441/7826494 – David Elmasllari

1 Answers

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You can use a SuperClass for activities and implement this https://stackoverflow.com/a/9629127/710162 on, for example, onCreate().