I have a problem with my android app. My activities restart when I rotate my phone (onCreate is called). I have googlet and have tried
android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"> in my manifes, but with no luck. Can someone please explain to me how I can get this to work
EDIT: I find out that i nedd to ad these codes
manifest
<activity
android:name="?"
android:label="#string/?"
android:theme="#style/?"
android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize">
MainActivity
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
// Checks the orientation of the screen
if (newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE) {
Toast.makeText(this, "landscape", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
} else if (newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT){
Toast.makeText(this, "portrait", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
}
In your Activity, you can override the method onSaveInstanceState. You can save the information you need into a Bundle. That bundle will be passed in to the onCreate method after the orientation has changed. If you would rather just specify one orientation to be used, within your manifest file, either under the application tab or activity tag, place:
android:screenOrientation="portrait"
You can try android:configChanges="keyboard|orientation|screenSize">. However, be aware that restarting the Activity on configuration change is normal behavior. Unless you have very specific needs, you should not be using configChanges.
In my android application i designed two different layouts with same file name say my_profile.xml, and stored in two different directories i.e, 1) res/layout, 2) res/layout-land. Now the problem is if i start activity in Portrait mode it loads Portrait mode layout but after changing orientation it doesn't change layout, But if i start activity in Landscape mode it loads layout of landscape i.e, perfect. Problem is only when i change orientation, it doesn't handle it automatically. Can any one tell me, what can be the problem?
Check for the following :
1) In manifest file check for the below line in your activity
android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|screenSize"
2) Override the below function
#Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
Log.d(tag,"onconfig");
if (newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE) {
// do something
Log.d(tag,"land");
} else if (newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT){
// do something
}
}
-Preeya
In your manifest.xml make the changes like this,,,,,
<activity android:name=".myActivity" android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden"></activity>
dont use configuartionChanges="orientation"
Thats it...
Check your manifest file. If you have the following in your activity then REMOVE IT:
android:configChanges="keyboard|orientation|screenSize"
orientation causes the the activity to resort to the same layout rather than creating a new one.
I'm working on a android application that adds every view programmaticaly.
When the user turns the screen, I just want to values that are filled in to be displayed again.
Is there an easy way to let Android do this automaticaly?
My application is completely dynamic so it doens't have a predetermined layout, which makes it a lot harder.
So, how can I easily save the state of my screen?
Everytime orientation change, android create new view and destroy the old one. You can saved your data when orientation change and re-initialize when the new view is created
Use onConfigurationChanged method of activity to detect Orientation Change
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
// Checks the orientation of the screen
if (newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE) {
Toast.makeText(this, "landscape", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
} else if (newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT){
Toast.makeText(this, "portrait", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
}
Don't forget to edit the appropriate element in your AndroidManifest.XML like this to include the android:configChanges
<activity android:name=".MyActivity"
android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"
android:label="#string/app_name">
For an expanded explanation of Hein's correct answer see my previous post:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/57239493/5696328
I'm using tab widget.
When my child activity is running and I change the orientation,child activity destroy.
As a solution of this problem,I added
android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden in all activity tags in my manifest.xml file.
I found that my app doesn't take xml file from layout_land folder.
Can anyone give me solution for this query?
Thanks in advance.
I found that using onConfigurationChanged method i can know the orientation and i have to set landscape file in layout folder instead of layout_land folder.
#Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
if(newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE){
setContentView(R.layout.login_landscape);
}
else if (newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT) {
setContentView(R.layout.login);
}
}
This happens because your Activity is not destroyed since you have put android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden" in manifest so the setContentView is not called when orientation changes and therefore it doesn't pick the layout from the layout_land
Update : And this is not a problem with your Tab-Activity try it in normal activity it will not pick the correct layout or in general speaking no layout is picked your portrait layout is only rotated to be displayed in landscape
I simply need nothing to change when the screen is rotated. My app displays a random image when it first loads and rotating the device should not select another random image.
How can I (simply) make this behavior stop?
There are generally three ways to do this:
As some of the answers suggested, you could distinguish the cases of your activity being created for the first time and being restored from savedInstanceState. This is done by overriding onSaveInstanceState and checking the parameter of onCreate.
You could lock the activity in one orientation by adding android:screenOrientation="portrait" (or "landscape") to <activity> in your manifest.
You could tell the system that you meant to handle screen changes for yourself by specifying android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize" in the <activity> tag. This way the activity will not be recreated, but will receive a callback instead (which you can ignore as it's not useful for you).
Personally I'd go with (3). Of course if locking the app to one of the orientations is fine with you, you can also go with (2).
Xion's answer was close, but #3 (android:configChanes="orientation") won't work unless the application has an API level of 12 or lower.
In API level 13 or above, the screen size changes when the orientation changes, so this still causes the activity to be destroyed and started when orientation changes.
Simply add the "screenSize" attribute like I did below:
<activity
android:name=".YourActivityName"
android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize">
</activity>
Now, when you change orientation (and screen size changes), the activity keeps its state and onConfigurationChanged() is called. This will keep whatever is on the screen (ie: webpage in a Webview) when the orientation changes.
Learned this from this site:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html
Also, this is apparently a bad practice so read the link below about Handling Runtime Changes:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/runtime-changes.html
You just have to go to the AndroidManifest.xml and inside or in your activities labels, you have to type this line of code as someone up there said:
android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize"
So, you'll have something like this:
<activity android:name="ActivityMenu"
android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize">
</activity>
Hope it works!
<activity android:name="com.example.abc"
android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize"></activity>
Just add android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize" in activity tab of manifest file.
So, Activity won't restart when orientation change.
It's my experience that it's actually better to just deal with the orientation changes properly instead of trying to shoehorn a non-default behavior.
You should save the image that's currently being displayed in onSaveInstanceState() and restore it properly when your application runs through onCreate() again.
This solution is by far the best working one. In your manifest file add
<activity
android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"
android:name="your activity name"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:screenOrientation="landscape">
</activity
And in your activity class add the following code
#Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig)
{
super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
if (newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT) {
//your code
} else if (newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE) {
//your code
}
}
In manifiest file add to each activity this. This will help
android:configChanges = "orientation|keyboard|keyboardHidden|screenLayout|screenSize"
add android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize" for all the app activities tags in manifest.
Just add this to your AndroidManifest.xml
<activity android:screenOrientation="landscape">
I mean, there is an activity tag, add this as another parameter. In case if you need portrait orientation, change landscape to portrait. Hope this helps.
just use : android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"
As Pacerier mentioned,
android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize"
All above answers are not working for me. So, i have fixed by mentioning the label with screenOrientation like below. Now everything fine
<activity android:name=".activity.VideoWebViewActivity"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize"/>
http://animeshrivastava.blogspot.in/2017/08/activity-lifecycle-oncreate-beating_3.html
#Override
protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle b)
{
super.onSaveInstanceState(b);
String str="Screen Change="+String.valueOf(screenChange)+"....";
Toast.makeText(ctx,str+"You are changing orientation...",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
screenChange=true;
}
Prevent Activity to recreated
Most common solution to dealing with orientation changes by setting the android:configChanges flag on your Activity in AndroidManifest.xml. Using this attribute your Activities won’t be recreated and all your views and data will still be there after orientation change.
<activity
android:name="com.example.test.activity.MainActivity"
android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize|keyboardHidden"/>
this is work for me😊😊😊
Save the image details in your onPause() or onStop() and use it in the onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) to restore the image.
EDIT:
More info on the actual process is detailed here http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#ActivityLifecycle as it is different in Honeycomb than previous Android versions.
I dont know if the a best solution, but i describe it here:
First of all, you need certificate with you class Application of your app is in your manifest of this:
<application
android:name=".App"
...
Second, in my class App i did like this:
public class App extends Application {
public static boolean isOrientationChanged = false;
#Override
public void onCreate() {
super.onCreate();
}
#Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(#NotNull Configuration newConfig) {
super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
if (newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE ||
newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT) {
isOrientationChanged = true;
}
}
}
Third, you need to set a flag to Orientation Change, in my case, I always set it when the previous activity within the app navigation is called, so only calling once when the later activity is created.
isOrientationChanged = false;
So every time I change the orientation of my screen in that context, I set it every time it changes this setting, it checks if there is a change in orientation, if so, it validates it based on the value of that flag.
Basically, I had to use it whenever I made an asynchronous retrofit request, which he called every moment that changed orientation, constantly crashing the application:
if (!isOrientationChanged) {
presenter.retrieveAddress(this, idClient, TYPE_ADDRESS);
}
I don't know if it's the most elegant and beautiful solution, but at least here it's functional :)
Add this code after the onCreate ,method in your activity containing the WebView
#Override
protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
}
#Override
protected void onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle state) {
super.onRestoreInstanceState(state);
}