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Is it possible to prevent the orientation of an Android application from changing ? I have an application that previews the phone camera and I would like the orientation not to change.

I have tried adding this to the manifest but it did not make a difference

<application android:label="TextureViewCameraStream" android:hardwareAccelerated="true">
    </application>
    <activity
       android:screenOrientation="portrait"
       android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden">
    </activity>

I am using Xamarin for Android and C#

Thank you

G-Man
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Set it in the Activity flag like this:

[Activity (Label = "YourActivityname", MainLauncher = true, ScreenOrientation = ScreenOrientation.Portrait)]
Sajeetharan
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    Anybody else looking for an answer [for xamarin iOS as well](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/layouts/device-orientation?tabs=macos), it can be set in `Info.plist`. – lucidbrot Mar 27 '19 at 08:49
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If you have an Activity, and you want to keep your activity in the same orientation when it is opened, then use this label:

[Activity(Label = "MyApp", ScreenOrientation = Android.Content.PM.ScreenOrientation.Locked)]
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