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Android Build an Interactive Story App Tuning the User Interface Optional: Setting Portrait-Only in Code

Posted by James Shi
James Shi
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Force Portrait-Only Mode Without Recreating Activity?

From my understanding, the method in this video to force portrait-only mode still causes the activity to be destroyed and created whenever the device is rotated. It seems inefficient to destroy and create the activity when nothing needs to happen to the activity at all. Am I misunderstanding something or is there a better solution to this problem?