Mobile (Android) orientations

[Alex Tweedly]

On 03/05/2013 13:40, Monte Goulding wrote:
> On 03/05/2013, at 10:25 PM, Guglielmo Braguglia <guglielmo at braguglia.ch> wrote:
>
>> - KFOT = Kindle Fire
>> - KFTT = Kindle Fire HD 7"
>> - WFJWI = Kindle Fire HD 8.9" Wi-Fi
>> - WFJWA = Kindle Fire HD 8.9" WAN
> I haven't done much LC android work.. only Java. The file format seems poorly documented. Can I have a file like this:
>
> device=Amazon|KFOT|||
> device=Amazon|KFTT|||
> device=Amazon|WFJWI|||
> device=Amazon|WFJWA|||
> orientation_map=0,90
>
> Or do I need an orientation_map line for each device line? Like I said before I really think a single community managed file for this would save some headaches... it could be dropped into either the IDE or engine repo... probably engine seeing as it's accepting pull requests.
>
>
Do you need to ?  Wouldn't it be enough to do
device=Amazon||||
orientation_map=0,90

Or are there other Amazon devices which don't have that same orientation ?

And more fundamentally - isn't this a broken model to start with ?
Any Android app which tries to use orientation needs to contain (built 
into its apk file) info about any possible (non-standard) device ?
So if a new non-standard device is released, you need to build/release a 
new version of the app, or else the app will misbehave on this new device ?

(And yes, this would be a great opportunity for a community managed 
file, if that reduces the explosion of releases needed as the app author 
finds out about each new device.)

Call me "Confused of Edinburgh",
-- Alex.