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Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] Notice for Application Developers regarding Full shell rotation landing soon

 

FYI

We're on the "OK" list though I wonder how we look like in landscape mode. I'll flash my device and let you know tomorrow.

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Temat: 	[Ubuntu-phone] Notice for Application Developers regarding Full
shell rotation landing soon
Data: 	Mon, 2 Feb 2015 05:10:02 -0600
Nadawca: 	Kevin Gunn <kevin.gunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Adresat: 	ubuntu-phone <ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



Hi all,
You may recall some time back I sent out a call for testing on the "full
shell rotation" feature for Unity8. We are on the verge of landing this
feature in vivid.

I also want to highlight to any application developers that along with
this change, applications will rotate in all orientations by default.
We've performed quite a bit of testing (~125) of the applications in our
store and for the most part, ~80% of the applications rotated and could
be used with no user experience problems. The remaining ~20% had what I
would call less than optimal experiences in the landscape orientation.
To say another way, these applications were built assuming a fixed
portrait orientation of a certain size. The most common example of this
were an applications containing a button located on the display in the
portrait mode. The button would then be located off the screen in
landscape and the application did not permit scrolling to allow the user
to interact. As a solution, these applications could either be fixed to
portrait, or possibly improved to make the application more usable in
the landscape mode. For those interested in seeing how their application
behaves ahead of this feature landing, simply follow the instruction at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity8/FullShellRotation
You may also see which applications we've tested via the link under the
"Applications Tested".Â

It's important to note in all cases tested where the landscape
orientation was not ideal for the application, the phone could simply be
reorientated back to portrait with application following suit with no
impact on the user's application experience. This means that for this
20% of applications, addressing rotation is strongly suggested for the
user experience, but not mandatory.

We are asking application developers to add this orientation preference
today, if desired, ahead of this feature landing. We estimate landing in
about 2 to 3 weeks. There is no impact to applications by adding this
orientation preference ahead of shell rotation feature landing. To
express a preferred orientation with the new shell rotation feature,
simply add either of the following to the application's desktop file Â
   X-Ubuntu-Supported-Orientations=landscapeÂ
or
   X-Ubuntu-Supported-Orientations=portraitÂ

And of course, you can test the results of this change on the ppa in the
aforementioned wiki.

If there is no orientation preference, no modification is needed and the
application will simply support all orientations.

Hope this helps.Â
Questions welcome.
br,kg


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