Disable landscape mode for a whole application

Question

Is the there a way to set a landscape mode to the whole application, not by adding android:screenOrientation="portrait" to every activity in AndroidManifest?

Answer 1

Here's the only thing I can think of. Write a class that extends Activity and put the following in that class:

setRequestedOrientation (ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);

Then, instead of extending Activity in your other classes, extend the new class.

Answer 2

One programmatic way of doing this, that I can think of, is to create a super class that extends activity and extend all your classes from there.

Have the below setting in the super class in a protected method and call super.xxx() to initiate this:

setRequestedOrientation (ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);

In case you what a specific activity in a different way you can simply override this.

[I have not tried this yet, but by the knowledge of OOP this works]