Fixed orientation Activity lifecycle on a slide out keypad phone?

You can probably prevent this by telling Android you want to handle the configuration changes yourself via the configChanges attribute.

You can probably prevent this by telling Android you want to handle the configuration changes yourself via the configChanges attribute. However, doesn't this point out why it is a bad idea to force the app to be in portrait? That is really annoying on phones with a keyboard.

I knew this was going to come up. I originally had this and experimented both ways without success. The keypad is not used in the activity that is forced to portrait.

– user432209 Feb 17 at 1:33 Ok, I don't know what your app is, but keep in mind that some users navigate using only the arrow keys or trackball. If they have a keyboard, then the keyboard will be open since that is generally where the arrow keys are. – Mayra Feb 17 at 1:56 My guess as to why would be just an implementation detail of how the portrait only is implemented.

The phone notices that a rotation has happened, they kill your activity to create the landscape one, but then realize that you want portrait only so create another portrait one. However, thats just a guess. If you want concrete details you probably need to check out the code.

– Mayra Feb 17 at 1:58 Well, onCreate is only called once when the config changes with a keyboard even with portrait set. I guess screenOrientation just isn't a concrete parameter like I expected. – user432209 Feb 17 at 2:15.

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