Screen orientation issue - suggestion to solve as Quick Action

[4sStylZ]

🚀 feature request

Description

Issue that I want to solve

My Motorcycle Holder is in Landscape mode, but while navigating, I get my phone on portrait mode to use Osmand because the keyboard is huge in landscape and not very user friendly.

That's why I use « Screen orientation » set up as « Same as device ». But while riding my bike, I encounter some troubles because my Device is constantly switching between the two landscape orientation mode. It's very annoying because all the screen is reversed, and I have to wait for stabilisation.

It appear while going fast, braking, accelerating, or while off-roading.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Switching manually between 2 orientations blocked. It's annoying.
• Orientation « Same as device » but it's annoying while riding.

Proposal

Provide a way for the user to set up a list of accepted screen orientation for a specific profile so the screen is not reversed during nav. e.g., while riding a motorcycle in auto rotation mode, I can have a list of 2 accepted orientations.

Describe the solution you'd like

A setting called « List of Accepted orientation » or « Automatic between a list » that provide a list of 4 toggle.

* General settings
    * <Profile Name>
        * Appearance
            * Screen Orientation
            _Same as device_
            * List of Accepted Orientation
                * Portrait Top to Bottom <on/off toggle>
                * Portrait Bottom to Top <on/off toggle>
                * Landscape Right to Left <on/off toggle>
                * Landscape Left to Right <on/off toggle>

Or

A new Screen orientation mode such as :

* General settings
    * <Profile Name>
        * Appearance
            * Screen Orientation
                 * Portrait
                 * Landscape
                 * Same as Device
                 * Automatic between a list
                      * Portrait Top to Bottom <on/off toggle>
                      * Portrait Bottom to Top <on/off toggle>
                      * Landscape Right to Left <on/off toggle>
                      * Landscape Left to Right <on/off toggle>

Others wordings idea :

    * Portrait Top to Bottom <on/off toggle>
    * Portrait Bottom to Top <on/off toggle>
    * Landscape Right to Left <on/off toggle>
    * Landscape Left to Right <on/off toggle>

[vshcherb]

It's probably you can have 2 profiles for that manner or we need to have quick action to quickly change orientation. Cause this solution won't help other cases when riding will flip from Portrait <-> Landscape.

[scaidermern]

What about a new quick action to switch between device orientations?

[4sStylZ]

It's probably you can have 2 profiles for that manner or we need to have quick action to quickly change orientation. Cause this solution won't help other cases when riding will flip from Portrait <-> Landscape.

I am not sure if this will flip to portrait, because when I ride, my phone never switch between Portrait and Landscape. Meaning that the gyro or some sensor just take a big input when I brake or accelerate. About the idea to have 2 profile, it means that I will have to duplicate the profile to not have GPS navigation recalculation. Seem's a bad idea to me to have to duplicate my profile just to have a different orientation setting. The quick action is way better in my mind.

Here is a preview of what happen during my ride. I know that this is probably a extreme style of driving, but it also happen when I ride chill and off-road at a very low speed.

I am pretty sure that it can really be better, and avoid at least 90% of my issues, at least with my phone / sensors / GPS holder. Sure I have no proof that it can solve all the use-case. But if the switch between Portrait and landscape mode happen, it's below 10% of the time, and I just have to wait 3 sec to have a bit of stabilisation for the phone to take the good orientation.

What about a new quick action to switch between device orientations? It can really be a 1st step into the good direction, and involve less developpement I suppose. But it mean that I will have to switch the orientation with the quick action every time I take my phone on my hand (it's a huge phone, and typing to search address in landscape is not wonderfull).

I also thinked about this idea, and despite that it's not perfect and fully automatic, I think I would love it, and use it because it's better than the actual situation in my specific use-case.

Thank you for your interrest.

[dmpr0]

ToDo

As first step I propose to add quick action to change Screen orientation.

[MrManatane]

Hello, I have one information and an addendum

• Running a third party app to override android screen orientation would be OK to solve the problem for the entire android environnment (tap'n'turn, as an example), but due to RAM limitation, android may block any app superposition. IMO only OSMand may supply the solution.
• It would be nice to get the reverse landscape and portrait options. Tell me please if this request needs another ticket. Thank you for your consideration. Phil