TextView disappears off screen on rotate

Question

I've got a chain of three text views next to one another so that in landscape mode they all align perfectly, however when I rotate to portrait mode they still try to align horizontal although I would like them to align one below another so that they fit on screen. I've tried getting the screen orientation and setting the LinearLayout that contains the 3 text views orientation on screen orientation change but to no avail. Any pointers?

Answer 1

You can create different layout for different orientations. Assuming you have main.xml. Just place it under two folders layout and layout-land, but with one difference: in first one make your LinearLayout vertical, in second one - horizontal. Your app will be automatically switch them when orientation change event occurs.

Answer 2

Just use a different layout for portrait mode.

res/layout-land/yourLayout.xml will be used for landscape mode, res/layout/yourLayout.xml for the portrait, name the files and the views inside the same and the right layout will be inflated on orientation change.