Android Screen Orientation: Forcing Landscape?

When I switch to a certain activity, I want that activity to show up in landscape mode. In my XML for that actvitiy: android:screenOrientation='landscape' most tutorials stated th

Solution 1:

In your activity tag, instead of just:

android:screenOrientation="landscape"

I would set:

 android:screenOrientation="landscape" android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"

It takes care of a few more things for you.

Solution 2:

fixed: the code needed to be in the manifest under the specific activity