Android Orientation

[Ensayia]

Don't know if this belongs here or in Android, now that the projects have sort of merged.

Is there any easy way to set portrait / landscape orientation when loading a game on Android? I don't see anything in the wiki about it.

Thanks!

[CanadianGamer]

I don't think there is a way to easily do that.
I guess you could change that when building into an apk
but other than that I don't think so.

[monolifed]

Is there a way to tell screen orientation?
Löve seems to prefer landscape orientation

[D0NM]

Is there a way to tell screen orientation?
Löve seems to prefer landscape orientation

have you seen this? viewtopic.php?f=4&t=81634&p=193732&hili ... pe#p193732

[bobbyjones]

I build it in landscape automagically. It can also be built in a way that can be auto, auto-landscape,auto-portrait(I think), and portrait. You would just have to set it in the manefest(I can't spell today) I believe. I suggested to slime that I can write code to make it possible to be changed in app but SDL handles the window creation and such in love. So the change has to be made in SDL for love to support it on Android. It is supported in SDL for iOS tho.

[monolifed]

Is there a way to tell screen orientation?
Löve seems to prefer landscape orientation

have you seen this? viewtopic.php?f=4&t=81634&p=193732&hili ... pe#p193732

I didn't see it. Thank you.

[bgordebak]

I did a simple hack for this. I don't know if it'll be a problem when I release the game, but right now it works. Here's how it goes:

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function love.draw()
	screen_width = love.graphics.getWidth()
	screen_height = love.graphics.getHeight()
	if screen_width < screen_height then
		orientation = "portrait"
	else
		orientation = "landscape"
	end
	--draw accordingly
end

[bgordebak]

You can change your AndroidManifest.xml so that android:screenOrientation is "unspecified" or "portrait". It's fairly easy.

It works fine for me.