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[Octavian Damiean <odamiean@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:05 PM, jaywink@xxxxxxxxxxxx <jaywink@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Personally as a user I would find it very annoying if all applications
> that do rotate didn't auto-rotate by default ;) Of course if there is the
> availability to set this in settings it is ok but for default behaviour
> personally I expect when trying out a new phone for apps to autorotate
> (when available). Forcing a user to choose rotation settings imho is not
> very user friendly.
>

Completely agree here. As a former Android developer I can tell you that
applications that don't support auto-rotation are bad application. It was
and still is a bad practice to force and orientation. Games are the only
exception to that rule though.


> For sure apps that do rotate should be available to be locked to a certain
> orientation (via the HUD?).
>

That should be a system wide setting in my opinion. You turn off
auto-rotate and select either portrait or landscape and the system and
applications would have to adjust, except the ones where it wouldn't make
sense.