Different layouts for landscape and portrait orientations in Android

In this article we will create an Android application which uses different layouts for landscape and portrait views of the device

1. Create an Android project namely “LandPortView”

Figure 1: New Android Project

2. Select Android build target

Figure 2: Select Android build target

3. Enter application details

Figure 3: Enter Application Details

4. res/values/strings.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>

    <string name="hello">Hello World, MainActivity!</string>
    <string name="app_name">LandPortViews</string>
    <string name="str_land">This is landscape view</string>
    <string name="str_port">This is portrait view</string>

</resources>

5. Create a new folder namely “layout-land” under the folder “res”

6. Create a layout file called main.xml in the folder “layout-land” and add the given below code

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/str_land"
    android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"

/>

</LinearLayout>

7. Create a new folder namely “layout-port” under the folder “res”

8. Create a layout file called main.xml in the folder “layout-port” and add the given below code :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/str_port"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
    />

</LinearLayout>

9. Application in execution

Figure 4 : Application in Portrait view

10. Download

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11. Reference

http://developer.android.com/guide/index.html

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