Rotation Locker App for Android Review
How many times you’ve got annoyed because your phone changed orientation to portrait or landscape while putting it down for a moment? Well, one way out of this predicament is to manually disable autorotate, something which most of us won’t do 9/10 times owing to sheer laziness. Now with Rotation Locker app for Android at your disposal, you have an app that takes care of screen orientation woes. It lets you lock your screen’s rotation for apps by forcing them to landscape or portrait mode. Rotation Locker may be downloaded from Google Play Store for free of cost.
How Rotation Locker App works?
Rotation Locker app for Android does not work by telling the OS to turn on the orientation lock. The advantage of this method is that apps such as Youtube that ignores system rotation settings can be made to lock into either portrait or landscape orientation easily. When you launch Rotation Locker app, you’ll get three options: portrait, landscape or auto, and you can choose the one you find convenient for a particular app.
You can launch Rotation Locker Android app from any window in Android by long pressing on the search key. So it goes without mention that it works only for phones with a physical search button. Further, long press on any orientation profile to activate a persistent background service. (This is useful if your phone seems to exit the locked orientation all of a sudden due to low memory resources). The app also comes with a Tasker/Locale plug-in that lets you automate the rotation switch based on different profiles. Further, a widget is provided so you can lock into whatever your current orientation is. Rotation Locker application is compatible with Android OS versions 2.1 or higher.
Final Thoughts
Rotation Locker app for Android is basically a simple program with no bells and whistles. It just let you lock your device’s orientation to Landscape, Portrait or Auto, depending upon how you like your screen to be viewed. The best feature of the app is that it works even with apps that typically resist orientation changes like YouTube. Rotation Locker is a must have app for your Android device if you’re annoyed by undesired changes in screen orientation when you’ve accidentally flip the phone in either direction.
Category: Free Android Apps
