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Re: Notice for Application Developers regarding Full shell rotation landing soon

 

I have been waiting for something like this for a while now, I'm glad to
hear that it's going to be app level as well. It may be too early to
ask, but will app level override the system orientation lock too?

Randy

On 2015-02-06 03:28 AM, Jouni Helminen wrote:
> Great to see this happening.
>
> +1 for in-app rotation lock (as well as global). Would have thought
> the dialer for instance needs to do this
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Daniel d'Andrada
> <daniel.dandrada@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:daniel.dandrada@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> wrote:
>
>     On 05/02/2015 19:24, Robert Schroll wrote:
>
>         We came up with a design where the orientation would be locked
>         while reading a book but unlocked on other screens of the app.
>         This would let you swap orientations relatively easily while
>         still keeping it locked while reading.
>
>         If this behavior isn't on the roadmap, where should I submit a
>         bug?
>
>
>     So this boils down to applications being able to tell/change their
>     preferred orientations at runtime.
>
>     Yes, that's on the roadmap.
>
>     - Daniel
>
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