Android determine screen orientation at runtime

Question

Here\'s a pseudo code to detect screen rotate event, and decide to retain or changes the screen orientation.

public boolean onOrientationChanges(orientation) {
          


        

Answer 1

if (this.getWindow().getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay()
    .getOrientation() == ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT) {
  // portrait mode
} else if (this.getWindow().getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay()
           .getOrientation() == ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE) {
  // landscape
}