Android - Fix screen orientation for 1 page only (phonegap)

Question

I am having an issue with fixing the screen orientation for my index.html page only. I want to allow the app to rotate except on the home page. I understand that adding the

Answer 1

You can set the screen orientation from you code using for example setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT); see http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#setRequestedOrientation%28int%29 . In the AndroidManifest.xml you can set it only as a global option.

Answer 2

You can use this PhoneGap Plugin for Android:

https://github.com/champierre/pg-plugin-screen-orientation

And add to your index.html page onload:

navigator.screenOrientation.set('portrait');