Auto rotate on Android

SDL Development
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I got this email from a user:

“Been playing Slay for years on and off, but just noticed that on my Pixel 5 the game ignores the system auto-rotate setting. I have it turned off but the game rotates anyway making it hard to play in bed. I’m sure this was fine the last time I played a while ago. I’m hoping this can be fixed to obey the system setting.”

If the device has auto-rotate switched off shouldn’t SDL handle that and not rotate our app? Or is that something we need to check for in our code?

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Sorry, just bumping this question.

Does SDL respect the “Disable auto-rotate” setting on phones, or is this something we have to manually check for ourselves?

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Did you find a resolution to this? I’m running into the same issue with SDL2. I tried setting
android:screenOrientation="fullUser"
in the Android manifest file, but that has no effect.

SDL_GetDisplayOrientation() seems to ignore the OS orientation screen lock setting, and only report on the sensor-based orientation.

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Sorry no, I never got a fix for this

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OK, thanks for the follow up. If I happen to find a resolution, I’ll circle back here.

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Is this still a bug in SDL2?

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I don’t believe it ever was a bug in SDL2. My understanding is that Android made a policy change that apps should not be allowed to prevent rotation, so the previous methods to achieve this stopped working.

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That’s annoying! I keep getting requests from users for me to ‘fix’ this! Anyone know if SDL3 behaves this way too?

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Looks like this may have gotten fixed in 2.30.4?