Rotation Lock Ignored

[FluxIX]

I have a Kivy app with is ignoring the device's rotation lock. The app was built to be compatible with both portrait and landscape modes, but when the device has locked the orientation to either portrait or landscape, the application is able to display in either portrait or landscape orientation.

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[inclement]

How did you set the rotation lock? With pyjnius?

[FluxIX]

The rotation lock was set through the devices settings, external to the app.

[KeyWeeUsr]

If the p4a doesn't check for orientation through spme java class(e.g. only by hardware changes - real rotation), it might ignore whole rotation lock mechanism that some of these apps use.

I can confirm. Kivy apps are ignoring the global system setting which is annoying.

[inclement]

It turns out this is just because the correct setting is --orientation=user rather than --orientation=sensor - the former is the same, except that it obeys the user's rotation settings. Other options are also available, listed in the Android documentation under android:screenOrientation. I've added this information to the documentation.