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[Florian Boucault <florian.boucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And to make the apps developers lives easier the Ubuntu UI Toolkit has 
added a simple way to enable automatic rotation of an app depending on 
the orientation of the device. If you are using MainView then simply set 
the 'automaticOrientation' property to true:

http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/ubuntu-12.10/qml/mobile/qml-ubuntu-components0-mainview.html#automaticOrientation-prop

Just make sure that your app layout responds well to size changes and it 
is likely that it will also respond well to orientation changes 
(changing the orientation is equivalent to changing the aspect ratio of 
the app window, width becomes the height and height becomes the width).

Florian

On 04/26/2013 09:58 AM, Calum K Pringle wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> We've just posted a blogpost with our latest chapter for the app design
> guides; responding to orientation
> <http://design.canonical.com/2013/04/responding-to-orientation/> - hope
> this is useful as there's been many questions on the mailing list about
> how to think about orientation when designing an app. As with the
> guidelines themselves, this is an entry level guideline, so let us know
> what might be useful to add / edit in the future!
> Cheers!
>
> Calum Pringle
> Interaction Designer
>
> Canonical Design Team
> m: 0773 9317055
> e: calum.pringle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:calum.pringle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>