Dear dfox,

Thank you for not making your app completely change layouts and screw up scrolling whenever we turn on our sides when reading rants in bed, unlike nearly every mobile web browser out there. We all really appreciate it.

--Random devRanter

Reason #1 on why I keep rotation locked vertically 👌

OMG you need so many more ++'s for this rant

y not just disable auto rotation

Wait you get sleep... you're doing dev wrong ;)

@Letmecode then what did he use?

@AnirudhKonduru In the about section you can see the stack they used. Looking at that, i see that the app is developed in Appcelerator using JavaScript, which is then compiled to an android app. Appcelerator has the possibility to turn the screen, so maybe it was on purpose to not implement it!

@Michel thanks for clarifying!

It's the little things that make this app amazing.

tl;dr probably defined it to stay in portrait mode.

I develop in natively for android and essentially 2 ways to turn off rotation. One is actually in the code that creates the activity(single thread or main list of rants) or in the Manifest, one of the main files that explains details about the application. Usually if I want to keep an activity in portrait I'll use the manifest file to define that I want that activity to stay in portrait mode.

Also, the way android handles orientation movement depends on if you tell it now to handle it or not. Without explicitly saying how to handle it, it tries its best to lay it out how it thinks it should be. However, good android developer will explicitly define how to handle orientation changes. I encountered this problem when I created an IRC application.

I just turned around in all the orientations testing this. #QALife

App does not support landscape orientation. It's not a bug, it's a feature. 😁