Changing the screen orientation depending on the auto-rotate setting

[bl1nch]

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Hello. At the moment, based on the documentation, Buildozer supports portrait and landscape orientations, but the application changes the screen orientation regardless of the state of the sensor on the user’s device. Thus, the orientation changes even if auto-rotation of the screen is disabled in the device settings. I've seen examples of fixing this using pyjnius but I would like to know if Buildozer supports this?

[RobertFlatt]

Buildozer app rotation is enabled in buildozer.spec using orientation options. https://github.com/Android-for-Python/Android-for-Python-Users#orientation

Android has a global 'auto-rotate' enable/disable option as part of Accessibility options.

Yes, I can confirm that Buildozer builds apps that ignore Android's global 'auto-rotate' disable.

In fact, I expect Buildozer apps ignore all the Android Accessibility options.

[misl6]

Hi @bl1nch,

Can you please post your buildozer.spec file and confirm that the build has been performed with the latest version of buildozer from scratch?

[bl1nch]

Hi @misl6, sorry for such a late reply

buildozer-arm64-v8a.spec.txt

If it suddenly matters I have a custom build method with Github Actions, so I clone p4a and make some changes every time, so don't mind this line:

p4a.source_dir = .python/python-for-android

I constantly use the latest version of the builldozer

The solution with pyjnius that I found on the internet, but I’m not sure if it works since I haven’t had time to check it yet:

from jnius import autoclass
PythonActivity = autoclass("org.kivy.android.PythonActivity")
ActivityInfo = autoclass("android.content.pm.ActivityInfo")
activity = PythonActivity.mActivity
activity.setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_USER)

[bl1nch]

Hi @misl6, sorry for such a late reply

buildozer-arm64-v8a.spec.txt

If it suddenly matters I have a custom build method with Github Actions, so I clone p4a and make some changes every time, so don't mind this line:

p4a.source_dir = .python/python-for-android

I constantly use the latest version of the builldozer

The solution with pyjnius that I found on the internet, but I’m not sure if it works since I haven’t had time to check it yet:

from jnius import autoclass
PythonActivity = autoclass("org.kivy.android.PythonActivity")
ActivityInfo = autoclass("android.content.pm.ActivityInfo")
activity = PythonActivity.mActivity
activity.setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_USER)

I recently tested this solution and it works perfect

[misl6]

have a custom build method with Github Actions

Which version of buildozer uses?

[bl1nch]

Last build with version 1.5.0

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