Lock device orientation - React Native (Android) - android

I'm using React Native 0.29 and developing for Android. I'm trying to lock the device orientation. What I need is to lock the screen in portrait mode. I tried with this repository https://github.com/yamill/react-native-orientation but it is not supporting RN 0.29 yet.
Is there any way I can lock the device orientation? Maybe any native Android hack with android studio?

Just add android:screenOrientation="portrait" to the activity in the AndroidManifest.xml.

2017 Update
Currently, there is also another way to do it once for both Android and iOS by adding:
"orientation": "portrait"
in app.json if you're using Expo:
{
"expo": {
"name": "My app",
"slug": "my-app",
"sdkVersion": "21.0.0",
"privacy": "public",
"orientation": "portrait"
}
}
Or at runtime:
ScreenOrientation.allow()
Example:
ScreenOrientation.allow(ScreenOrientation.Orientation.PORTRAIT);
Note that it only works if you're building with Expo but since this is currently (as of 2017) recommended in official guides on React Native Blog then probably a lot of people are using it so it's worth mentioning as an interesting solution in addition to hacking the Android-specific XML configuration files.
More info:
For more info see:
how to disable rotation in React Native?

There is a pull request for this to work on 0.29.2 and above:
https://github.com/yamill/react-native-orientation/pull/85
If you use his version, it should work on 0.29.2 and above:
https://github.com/youennPennarun/react-native-orientation
Steps:
unlink the previous installation with rnpm unlink react-native-orientation
rm -rf node_modules/react-native-orientation
in your package.json edit the entry of react-native-orientation to be as:
"react-native-orientation": "youennPennarun/react-native-orientation"
npm install
react-native link react-native-orientation
Things should work after this. You can track the progress of the PR and switch to main repo when it has been merged.

react-native-orientation - is no longer compatible with new version (I have tried 0.39.2). After linking this module I have the compiler's error.
As I got it, now we should use react-native-orientation-listener
npm install --save react-native-orientation-listener
rnpm link

Step:1
npm install git+https://github.com/yamill/react-native-orientation.git --save
Step2:
react-native link
Step:3
Modify the MainApplication.java file with:
import com.github.yamill.orientation.OrientationPackage;// import
#Override
protected List getPackages() {
return Arrays.asList(
new MainReactPackage(),
new OrientationPackage() //add this
);
}

You can use react-native-orientation-locker.
The 'react-native-orientation' has been deprecated.
Using the 'react-native-orientation-locker' component, you would be able to detect the current orientation, as well as locking it to Portrait/Landscape by using:
Orientation.lockToPortrait();
Orientation.lockToLandscapeLeft();
Even release the locks using
Orientation.unlockAllOrientations();

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.......
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Faloowing command:
Run as administrator cmd and write this line npm install -g eas-cli.
Initialize new module in your expo/react native project with this line eas init.
Build aplication using this line for android: eas build --platform android
*For ios is a bit different you mast edit your file eas.json:
{
"cli": {
"version": ">= 0.43.0"
},
"build": {
"development": {
"distribution": "internal",
"android": {
"gradleCommand": ":app:assembleDebug"
},
"ios": {
"buildConfiguration": "Debug"
}
},
"preview": {
"distribution": "internal"
},
"production": {
"ios": {
"cocoapods": "1.11.2"
}
}
},
"submit": {
"production": {}
}
}
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I have already make a build for android last week and everything works well. I have make some changes and now I want to make another build with expo build:android and I get this error.
Checking if this build already exists…
Entity Not Found.
It works well in ios but I couldn’t make the build for android. any thoughts?
thanks!
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I recently encountered this issue, tried a bunch of things. not sure which resolved it but here is a list.
How it started - a guess of how the issue originated
In app.json file I changed the value of android.package from "io.expo.client" to "com.mydomain.myapp"
"android": {
"package": "com.expo.client", // ---> "com.mydomain.myapp"
"adaptiveIcon": {
"foregroundImage": "./assets/adaptive-icon.png",
"backgroundColor": "#FFFFFF"
}
},
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delete all builds of the app from the project in expo
delete the project
create a new project
make sure the slug names match with that in your app.json file
run expo build:android -c on your app terminal to build with new credentials
accept to delete the old credentials
accept to have Keystore generated for you by expo
Deleting all builds of the app from the project in Expo alone helped me.
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try to build with --clear-credentials flag...
or try in another expo account.

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I am using this component https://github.com/wix/react-native-calendars. It Works good in iphone but having issue with android. When i open calendar page it gives me an error as
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node_modules\react-native\local-cli\util\findSymlinkedModules.js:37
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^
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at createScript (vm.js:53:10)
at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:95:10)
at Module._compile (module.js:543:28)
at loader (\node_modules\babel-register\lib\node.js:144:5)
at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .js] (node_modules\babel-register\lib\node.js:154:7)
at Module.load (module.js:488:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:447:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:439:3)
at Module.require (module.js:498:17)
at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
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I found this solution here:
https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/16458
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Steps :
npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-transform-flow-strip-types
In .babelrc
{
"plugins": ["transform-flow-strip-types"]
}
More details https://www.npmjs.com/package/babel-plugin-transform-flow-strip-types
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"babel-preset-react-native": "^4.0.0",
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{
"presets": ["react-native"]
}
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npm start -- --reset-cache
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});
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