handeling orientation change in android

Question

I wanted to have a differnet look to one of my activities when the orientation changes. I created the layout-land folder and added activity1.xml there but when I switch the orientation I still get the regular activity.

Is there anything else I need to do to make it work?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Do you have android:configChanges attribute defined in your manifest?

There are two ways the orientation change can be handled:

1. You define attribute android:configChanges="orientation" in your app's mainfest and implement onConfigurationChanged() in your activity. This method will then be called when orientation changes.

2. You do NOT define android:configChanges attribute. The you activity will be restarted (a new activity crated) and will go through a lifecycle process (onCreate, onStart, etc), every time orientation of device changes.

Answer 2

Read here about configuration changes. You can override onConfgiratationChanged() method of your activity and set a content view to the activity1 layout.