Set activity to specific orientation before it start

Question

Is there a way I can start activity in a specific orientation (programmatically) without having it to be recreated again? Right now if I call setRequestedOrientation from the the OnCreate and the orientation is different than the current then the activity is destoryed and restarted again.

Thank you

Answer 1

For me solution was to lock orientation of Activity

android:screenOrientation="locked"

, and now it depends only on setRequestedOrientation():

   <activity android:name=".SomeActivity"
      android:label="@string/app_name"
      android:screenOrientation="locked">

No restarting anymore.