onConfigurationChanged not getting called even with manifest config changes - Why?

Question

I know the question is awful, done thousands of times ; But seriously, I've been stuck for 4 hours trying to solve this. I came into every link from 2009 until today and all of them give the same solution which (**** knows why) is not applying into my case.

This is the activity inside my manifest:

<activity 
android:name="com.example.activities.CamerasActivity"
android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize">
</activity> 

I'm using SDKs 4.0 or higher:

<uses-sdk
android:minSdkVersion="16"
android:targetSdkVersion="19" />

And this is my class:

public class CamerasActivity extends Activity {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.cameras_activity);

        VideoView videoView = (VideoView)findViewById(R.id.action_cameras);
        videoView.setVideoPath("/storage/sdcard/teste.mp4");
        videoView.start();
    }

    //Still not working
    @Override
    public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
        super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);

        if(newConfig.orientation==Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE)
        {
            Log.d("System.out", "Welcome to Landscape Mode");
        }
        else if(newConfig.orientation==Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT)
        {
            Log.d("System.out", "Welcome to portrait mode");
        }
    }
}

When I run my app like this I can see in portrait mode, works fine. if I use android:screenOrientation="landscape" on my manifest, I can see forced in landscape mode. This means my layouts are fine but why exactly my onConfigurationChanged isn't getting called when I try to rotate the screen? What am I missing?

EDIT:

AVD Config:

Auto-Rotate enabled:

Video the way it is: And no outputs on my logcat.

Answer 1

The onConfigurationChanged method is called when you physically rotated an Android device. So, you need to rotate your device to see the method gets called.

Note: The onConfigurationChanged also gets called when you changed locale, etc. See here for more info.

Also, I would have these values for the android:configChanges directive:

android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize|layoutDirection

Also, Issue 61671 might be related to the screen orientation problem described in this post. As of April 2014, this defect / bug has not been resolved by Google.

WORKAROUND

As stated in this SO link, screen orientation might work if the device type is set as a generic 7" tablet instead of Nexus 7.