Force an Android activity to always use landscape

Question

I am using the Android VNC viewer on my HTC G1. But for some reason, that application is always in landscape mode despite my G1 is in portrait mode. Since the Android VNC viewer is open source, I would like know how is it possible hard code an activity to be 'landscape'. I would like to change it to respect the phone orientation.

Answer 1

Press CTRL+F11 to rotate the screen.

Answer 2

Use the ActivityInfo (android.content.pm.ActivityInfo) in your onCreate method before calling setLayout method like this

this.setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);