Check orientation on Android phone

Question

How can I check if the Android phone is in Landscape or Portrait?

Answer 1

Another way of solving this problem is by not relying on the correct return value from the display but relying on the Android resources resolving.

Create the file layouts.xml in the folders res/values-land and res/values-port with the following content:

res/values-land/layouts.xml:

    true

res/values-port/layouts.xml:

    false

In your source code you can now access the current orientation as follows:

context.getResources().getBoolean(R.bool.is_landscape)