How to lock device orientation for React Native apps (Android & iOS) — 2x02
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Why lock application orientation mode?
Many applications have their User Interface (UI) designed to contain a lot of elements. To have these applications change their orientation (i.e. from portrait to landscape), it would mean that users will have a bad UI experience and also a lot of scrolling to deal with. A typical example of that case is games.
In these cases, app creators make a decision to visualize this information either vertically or horizontally, not both. Instead they prefer to “lock” orientation to one mode and optimize for it.
How to perform the configuration
There is no exposed API from React Native to achieve that (although there is one from ExpoKit), so in order to achieve our goal we can either configure it directly on the native apps or use third party packages that have been built to help with this purpose, like react-native-orientation.
