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Hi Nekhelesh!

Weather, Clock, Calculator and Calendar are intended to be restricted to 
portrait orientation for first release; and therefore they'll run in the 
tablet side stage; after which we'll be looking at what landscape 
orientation might add (e.g. scientific mode in the calculator).

Cheers
Calum

On 29/04/13 16:33, Nekhelesh Ramananthan wrote:
> Hi Florian,
>
> Thanks for that. However on interchanging the width and height to 
> simulate the landscape orientation, I noticed that the core apps like 
> Weather, Clock, Calculator etc do not adapt well to the new 
> orientation. Is there sample code we core app developers could look at 
> to get an idea on how to make our app respond well to different 
> orientations?
>
> Kind regards,
> Nekhelesh
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Florian Boucault 
> <florian.boucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:florian.boucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     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>
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>         <mailto:calum.pringle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
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