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Lock screen orientation of a DreamService

I've been fiddling with the new DreamService API for the past few hours, and it's pretty sweet. I do have one question, though.

I'd like to lock the screen orientation to landscape when the DreamService is shown. The purpose of the DreamService is to show a number of widescreen photos, and I'd rather not have the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen.

I've tried a number of things, including setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE) in Java code, and android:screenOrientation="landscape" in the manifest file, but none have worked.

This makes me wonder: Is it possible to lock the orientation of a DreamService?

Solution

  • The Android developer team confirmed that this currently isn't possible during a live developer Hangout some time ago.

    I believe Google wants DreamServices to work in both screen orientations, so that's why it isn't possible.