You're reading from Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Android, Second Edition Develop, test, and deliver fully-featured Android applications using Xamarin

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785280375

Length 296 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Xamarin

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. The Anatomy of an Android App FREE CHAPTER

2. The Xamarin.Android Architecture

3. Creating the Points Of Interest App

4. Adding a List View

5. Adding a Details View

6. Making Your App Orientation-aware

7. Designing for Multiple Screen Sizes

8. Creating Data Storage Mechanisms

9. Making POIApp Location Aware

10. Adding the Camera App Integration

11. Publishing an App to the App Store

Index

Chapter 6. Making Your App Orientation-aware

This chapter will walk you through the process of dealing with the Android application behavior on device configuration changes. In the course of this chapter, we will cover comprehensive details of the theoretical concepts, but we will not make any significant changes to the POIApp. The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

The Android behavior on configuration changes
Locking the Android application orientation
Saving the activity state for configuration changes
Adding alternative resources
Manually handling the orientation behavior

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Chapter 6. Making Your App Orientation-aware

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