如何检测在某些 android 设备中无法更改活动轮换？

Question

I am working on an android app that is used on both Android mobile and Android TV devices. I have a portrait activity. It works well on normal mobile but on Android Tv devices, it shows a rotated portrait screen in landscape mode. So, is there any way to force the activity to be in portrait mode? If it's not possible, how can I detect that the device does not support different orientations?

P/s: I did add this android:screenOrientation="portrait" to the AndroidManifest file.

Answer 1

You have to add below line each activity tag of yours in your Android manifest file

android:screenOrientation="portrait"

Answer 2

You should not run an activity in portrait mode on the TV. That goes against the TV-LO quality requirement and your app submission will be rejected if you submit to Google Play like that. On top of that, overscan will cut off part of your layout on some displays, so the user experience will not be good.

I'd recommend creating a landscape layout or optimizing your portrait layout to work in landscape mode. Even without TV, you're going to run into user experience issues forcing an orientation (eg, on a tablet that's in landscape mode because a keyboard is connected).