tns run android enables auto rotate on device

Tell us about the problem

When installing an app using tns run android , auto rotate of device is turned on every time.

Which platform(s) does your issue occur on?

Android (iOS not tested)

Please provide the following version numbers that your issue occurs with:

• CLI: 3.0.3
• Cross-platform modules: (check the ‘version’ attribute in the node_modules/tns-core-modules/package.json file in your project)
• Runtime(s): android

Please tell us how to recreate the issue in as much detail as possible.

1. Open powershell(windows)
2. do tns create appName
3. cd to directory
4. turn off auto rotate on android device
5. tns run android

this turns auto rotate on.

[Plamen5kov]

Based on popular vote: removing monkey from implementation and replacing it with am tool.

[petekanev]

@Plamen5kov I don’t like the idea of forcing device rotation manually, for one, you may have to know of the original state, to be able to do it properly, and I’ve also noticed that the adb monkey tool doesn’t always unlock automatic rotation.

In order to determine which Activity to send a MAIN intent to using the Activity Manager (adb am), we could do a package dump, and grep the Activity Resolver Table. For an application with a single activity it looks like this:

  Activity Resolver Table:
    Non-Data Actions:
        android.intent.action.MAIN:
          2e5610f org.nativescript.volunteerupapp/com.tns.NativeScriptActivity filter c0aef3
            Action: "android.intent.action.MAIN"
            Category: "android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"
            AutoVerify=false

If I executed adb shell pm dump org.nativescript.volunteerupapp | grep -A 1 MAIN I would end up with just this, which is fairly parseable:

        android.intent.action.MAIN:
          2e5610f org.nativescript.volunteerupapp/com.tns.NativeScriptActivity filter c0aef3
            Action: "android.intent.action.MAIN"
            Category: "android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"

There is an alternative to using pm dump to get the Activity Resolver table, and that’s using cmd package resolve-activity --brief org.nativescript.volunteerupapp, which unfortunately appears to be unavailable on devices API 24 or lower. Following is the result when the command is executed:

priority=0 preferredOrder=0 match=0x108000 specificIndex=-1 isDefault=false
org.nativescript.volunteerupapp/com.tns.NativeScriptActivity