Hi, I just started using ionic framework and would like to know how do I set the orientation of the ionic app for android and ios either to: portrait, landscape or both (portrait and landscape)? I tried changing config.xml <preference name="orientation" value="landscape" /> <preference name=…

Hmm where have you set this? In the config.xml at the project root? Have you run this command cordova prepare After making the changes the config file?

I setup the config.xml in the root. Please see screenshot. [image] I tried cordova prepare and still the same result. Please see screenshot. [image]

Hm, very odd. Definitely a cordova issue. For iOS, you may have to open up Xcode and set that there.

Thanks for the reply. Will this be fixed in later versions of Ionic?

Well its a cordova issue, so not much we can do really. You might have a better chance of getting this resolved if you bring this up to the cordova people

@sdonyh I am experiencing the same problem. Any feedback on how you fixed this ? Any help will be appreciatted.

This is also an issue for me. I understand that it IS a cordova issue, but if anyone here has a good workaround, I’d love to hear it.

Actually I’m not sure if that’s the issue… The docs have it as capitalized and so is my implementation, however after looking into the cordova CLI library (cordova/metadata/) the ios_parser.js file doesnt look for orientation, while android/amazon fireos/firefoxos do, so this may be a cordova bug. I…

@djett Thanks so much for that hook, it solved the issue for us! I could not find an exact issue on the Codrova project that referenced that as a bug, but as far as I can tell, it is one.

Config .xml Preference Orientation not working for IOS

ionic-v1

djett March 25, 2015, 9:44pm 9

@sdonyh the O in orientation should be capitalized . Give that a try

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