Rotate screen

[anaylor01]

I have two buttons that I want to show upside down when the screen is rotated upside down.

 

[Erel]

Does your device rotate the screen when it is upside down (most tablets will rotate the screen)?

 

[anaylor01]

It does for other apps. Just not the one I wrote with B4A.

 

[Erel]

Make sure that 'Project - Orientations supported - Both' is checked.
Which device are you using?

 

[anaylor01]

Both is checked. I am using the Samsung Galaxy III

 

[Erel]

Are you sure that Samsung Galaxy 3 supports upside down orientation? I'm pretty sure it doesn't.

You can check the manifest file generated. You will see that activities are marked with:
android:screenOrientation="unspecified"
This means that all orientations are supported.

 

[anaylor01]

It says "android:screenOrientation="unspecified". So does that mean it doesn't or does do upside down?

 

[Erel]

It means that all orientations are supported. Most phone devices support two orientations only.

 

[anaylor01]

So why isn't it rotating when I turn it upside down?

 

[Erel]

Because most phones do not support this orientation.

 

[anaylor01]

So is there anyway to turn the buttons or text upside down?

 

[Erel]

You can draw the text with Canvas.DrawBitmapRotated. Though it is quite complicated to apply it to the complete UI.