Improvements to orientation locking on Android

[grant]

When locking the orientation to landscape or portrait we should let the player also use landscape flipped and portrait flipped. Sometimes it's nice depending on where the headphone jack is or side buttons.

We could change the suggested orientations from "portrait" and "landscape" to "userPortrait" and "userLandscape"

recommend using "userPortrait" and "userLandscape" · GrantOjanen/cerberus@54ceb84

Cerberus X - A cross platform game programming language. - recommend using "userPortrait" and "userLandscape" · GrantOjanen/cerberus@54ceb84

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But since this requires API level 18 we should add backwards compatibility in Java. (Note: We still want to lock the orientation in the manifest too, because that gives it a better launch animation.)

Also I noticed there seems to be what may be a copy/paste error where onStart, onRestart, and onStop all call super.onResume(), so I changed that.

improvements to screen orientation locking · cerberusxdev/cerberus@0a7b888

Cerberus X - A cross platform game programming language. - improvements to screen orientation locking · cerberusxdev/cerberus@0a7b888

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[MikeHart]

From November on, ALL apps have to target API level 30

 

[grant]

Yes, they require a newer version be targeted every year when releasing on Google Play. Cerberus-X currently targets 28 and requires 16 by default, but I didn't do any changes on that.

 

[Wingnut]

They update so damn quickly that you can't even get the time to read a book about one of the versions before another one is released!

 

[MikeHart]

Yup, if I had a say, I would drop that and the ios target To much effort.

 

[SLotman]

On Android you can simply use sensorPortrait or sensorLandscape. The view is locked into portrait/landscape but if you rotate the phone the view will also rotate.

It is what I have used in all my games

 

[grant]

According to the docs for Android "The sensor is used even if the user has locked sensor-based rotation."

I'm a perfectionist, so that is why I like using "user" instead.