[Android] Is disabling landscape mode unforgivable?

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Published on 2010-12-22T15:08:59Z Indexed on 2010/12/22 20:54 UTC
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Our application could support landscape mode without any problem, but it is such a pain that we are thinking about forcing portrait mode.

Question: Is it BAD?

The main problem is that changing orientation generates random crashes on many screens. Avoiding those crashes would potentially allow us to spend more time on the core aspects of the app. Will the same crashes happen when users switch apps anyway?

Also, are there landscape-oriented devices where our app will become useless?

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