The rotation has been among the little -known heroes of my personal Android configuration for ages now, but somewhere along the way – probably while going from one phone to another, at some point – I have somehow lost it and I stopped putting it in place. I recently realized that, I corrected my misstep, and I quickly remembered what an absolute jewel is this little harmless power tool and how much it improves my interactions on the endless screen.
In its most basic form – which is absolutely as I suggest you use it – the way the rotation works is simple:
- You just tell the application how you want your phone to manage the rotation most time, by default.
- For me, it is in a forced portrait orientation, without any automatic rotation – because few things do not infer me more than the screen of my phone turning when I don’t want it to do it (like when the device is seated in my car from an angle or leaning on a sofa, perhaps, and it ends up putting itself in all the types of states of screen rotation that are therefore).
- Then you create a handful of specific exceptions For when you want this default position to change.
- I mainly limit them to the scenarios specific to the application – so, for example, the rotation knows that I could use Chrome, YouTube or the camera application of my pixel phone in a horizontal position and will therefore rotate the screen when those The applications are open and used and it seems that I hold the device in an appropriate position. But he also knows that I almost never want my screen running when I look, let’s say, messages or my email or the phone application, so it’s doesn’t turn those Applications are actively to the point.
- This is the most useful element of rotation for me, personally, but you can also explore other conditions – like saying the application to keep your phone in a specific locked screen position when you are in the middle of a call, when your device is locked, or when loaded, accosted or connected to an audio device on Bluetooth.
The most important point here, as you want to configure things, is that you will only have to do it once – and the rotation will then work quietly in your name, during operation and by working things as you wish without ever needing active reflection or effort.
