This differs a little bit if you want to lock your screen to Portrait or Landscape with the new Android 3.0 core. Quick Steps: 1. Open your AndroidManifest.xml file 2. Go to around line: 96 or search for this: <activity android:name=".BT_activity_host" android:label="@string/app_name" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize" android:theme="@style/hostThemeWithTitle" android:uiOptions="splitActionBarWhenNarrow" ></activity> 3. You will be adding this configuration portion to the end of the activity: android:screenOrientation="portrait" or android:screenOrientation="landscape" It will look like this: <activity android:name=".BT_activity_host" android:label="@string/app_name" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize" android:theme="@style/hostThemeWithTitle" android:uiOptions="splitActionBarWhenNarrow" android:screenOrientation="sensorPortait"></activity> This will lock the entire app to Portrait or Landscape. Edited with fix from @AlanMac

Perfect! Thanks!! Cheers! -- Smug

Thanks. So the rotation setting in the CP is just ignored in the new 3.0 core then, you need to do this to actually lock it? Have you tinkered with not locking the BT activity host and tried to lock individual activities? Curios if it gets overriden if you are using the BT tab controller. This has been the problem with every rotation lock hack I've tried to deploy on either platform. An easy way to control rotation per screen in BT is at the top of my list for feature requests. It just seems like since BT has all the activities/viewcontrollers subclassed that there has to be a simpler way. Rotations. Auto Layouts. That stuff just keeps getting more problematic with all these new devices and trying to build custom screens!

Havent tried much. I just noticed that the activities per plugin were not in the manifest so I used the activity host. Yes, the control panel ignore my rotation rule at least with my non tablet device LG Optimus mobile phone. It rotated so.. I guess I would just have to add the non rotate rule in the java class for each plugin but I haven't tried yet! I'm sure I'll get to it at some point so I will report back!

No worries, I've not hammered on Android rotation as much as iOS yet. I know you can set the initial state of a screen orientation in the activity- And you can use this in the oncreate() to override that- setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE); But will the BT controllers override that? They seems to in iOS so just curious if that is still the case with the new Androind core. I'm guessing it will. I need to update and tinker around.....

Hi @mysps, I tried this and it works a treat, except that on my device, it always flips the screen upside down! I fixed this with one small enhancement to your example that I wanted to share, which is to use android:screenOrientation="sensorPortait" (note the deliberate mis-spelling is needed). This allows the device to be used in portrait upside down or the right way up. Did anyone work out how to apply this to a specific plugin instead of the whole app? Cheers, Alan

Oh thanks Alan I'll update the original post. About the specific plugin, I'll take a look and report back. I think Sandeep had a solution for that somewhere buried in the forums :)

Thanks guys, I just tried that and it works a treat! Farcat