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Adds a rotate button to the System drawer header, next to the "System" title. Each press turns the launcher 90° and stores the result, so the next launch opens in the orientation the user left it in. New feature, so it falls under "Other" in the template below.

Five states. The four orientations plus auto (SCREEN_ORIENTATION_UNSPECIFIED), which releases the lock back to the system. Auto is the default, so existing users see no change until they press the button.

Ring anchored to the device's natural orientation, so the first press is always a real quarter turn instead of landing on what auto already shows:

  • portrait-natural (phones): landscape -> reverse portrait -> reverse landscape -> portrait -> auto
  • landscape-natural (handhelds, e.g. Retroid Pocket 6): portrait -> reverse landscape -> reverse portrait -> landscape -> auto

Table-driven, never derived from display.rotation. On landscape-natural panels display.rotation does not map onto the portrait-natural ActivityInfo constants; the first version derived its position that way, which skipped states and repeated the current one (landscape -> reverse portrait on the first press).

One writer for requestedOrientation. MainActivity.setOrientationTo stays the only place that sets it. While no container is running the launcher applies its own stored choice; a running game keeps its existing allowed-orientation + sensor logic untouched. That also removed the interaction where the game's allowed-orientation set clamps the launcher to landscape-only.

Storage. PrefManager.launcherOrientation (DataStore, int). Auto is stored as UNSPECIFIED, so it is remembered like any other state.

UI. The button is filled with the theme's primaryContainer while the launcher is in auto and transparent when locked, so the state is visible without a label. It reuses the existing toggle_orientation string as its content description, so no new translations. It has an explicit focus requester with up wired from the first menu item, because the header previously sat outside the drawer's focus traversal and was unreachable with a gamepad.

Verification. LauncherOrientationTest (9 tests) covers both natural orientations: ring order, first press always changes the screen, all five states reachable, the natural orientation reachable as a locked state, unknown stored value restarting cleanly. :app:assembleModernDebug builds. lintKotlinMain reports no findings in the touched files. Manually checked on a landscape-natural handheld (Retroid Pocket 6): all five states reachable, choice survives a restart. Not yet checked on a portrait-natural phone.

Known limits. On a landscape-natural panel the two portrait states rotate the display, so the launcher renders sideways/cramped - Android honouring the request rather than letterboxing it. The cycle assumes auto shows the natural orientation; with system rotation locked to a non-natural orientation the first press can land on what is already on screen. VR builds keep their fixed landscape projection (the handler is a no-op via MainActivity.isHeadset).

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Summary by cubic

Adds a rotate button to the System menu header that cycles the launcher through four 90° orientations plus auto, persisting the choice so the next launch opens the way the user left it.

  • The five-state ring is anchored to the device's natural orientation, so the first press is always a real quarter turn. From auto, it enters at the first orientation whose shape differs from what's on screen, so the press never looks dead when system rotation is locked to a non-natural orientation.
  • The launcher applies its stored choice only while it owns the orientation (auto set); games keep their allowed-orientation logic, including the request sent before the container starts. The stored choice is restored only when no container is running.
  • The ring is a fixed table per natural orientation, never derived from display.rotation.
  • Auto (SCREEN_ORIENTATION_UNSPECIFIED) stays the default, so existing users see no change until they press the button.
  • The button is highlighted while in auto, gamepad-reachable from the first menu item, and a no-op on VR headsets, which keep their fixed landscape projection.

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  • New Features
    • Added a system menu control to cycle the launcher through portrait and landscape orientations, including automatic rotation.
    • The launcher remembers the selected orientation and restores it when reopened.
    • The orientation control does not change the launcher orientation on headset devices.

The System drawer gains a rotate button beside its title. Each press turns
the launcher 90 degrees and stores the result, so the next launch opens in
the orientation the user left it in.

The button is a five-state ring anchored to the device's natural
orientation: the first press is always one quarter turn away from what auto
shows, and the five presses walk the four orientations and then release
back to auto (SCREEN_ORIENTATION_UNSPECIFIED). The ring is a table and is
never derived from display.rotation, which does not map onto the
portrait-natural ActivityInfo constants on landscape-natural panels
(handhelds) and used to skip states or repeat the current one.

MainActivity.setOrientationTo stays the only writer of requestedOrientation:
while no container is running the launcher applies its own stored choice,
and a running game keeps its own allowed-orientation logic. The stored value
lives in PrefManager.launcherOrientation.

The header button is also reachable with a gamepad (D-pad up from the first
menu item) and is filled with the theme's primaryContainer while the
launcher is in auto, so the current state is visible without a label.
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The launcher can cycle through four locked orientations and auto. The selected orientation persists across activity creation. A system-menu button emits the rotation event. MainActivity applies the launcher target when eligible and ignores the event on headset devices.

Changes: Launcher Orientation Control

Layer / File(s) Summary
Stored orientation cycle
app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/PrefManager.kt, app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/utils/LauncherOrientation.kt, app/src/test/java/app/gamenative/utils/LauncherOrientationTest.kt
LauncherOrientation defines a five-state cycle based on natural orientation. PrefManager stores the selected value. Tests cover cycle order, transitions, and target mapping.
Activity orientation handling
app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/events/AndroidEvent.kt, app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/MainActivity.kt
MainActivity handles and registers the rotation event, applies the stored orientation during activity creation, and uses the launcher target for auto-orientation requests.
System menu orientation control
app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/library/components/SystemMenu.kt
SystemMenu adds a button that emits the rotation event and reflects whether the stored orientation is concrete. The button and Settings item receive directional focus links.

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Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant SystemMenu
  participant MainActivity
  participant LauncherOrientation
  participant PrefManager
  User->>SystemMenu: Click orientation control
  SystemMenu->>MainActivity: Emit RotateLauncherOrientation event
  MainActivity->>LauncherOrientation: Advance and store orientation
  LauncherOrientation->>PrefManager: Persist selected orientation
  MainActivity->>MainActivity: Apply target when eligible
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@joshuatam joshuatam changed the title Add a launcher orientation button to the System menu feat: Add a launcher orientation button to the System menu Oct 19, 2026
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- Around line 112-114: Update applyStored in LauncherOrientation so it applies
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the game-state guard in MainActivity.setOrientationTo. Preserve the existing
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<violation number="1" location="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/library/components/SystemMenu.kt:430">
P3: The rotate button's state is shown only by its background color, and the content description is static. Screen-reader users cannot tell whether auto is active. Expose the current state via `Modifier.semantics { stateDescription = ... }` so it is announced.</violation>
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Icon(
imageVector = Icons.Default.ScreenRotation,
contentDescription = stringResource(R.string.toggle_orientation),

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P3: The rotate button's state is shown only by its background color, and the content description is static. Screen-reader users cannot tell whether auto is active. Expose the current state via Modifier.semantics { stateDescription = ... } so it is announced.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/library/components/SystemMenu.kt, line 430:

<comment>The rotate button's state is shown only by its background color, and the content description is static. Screen-reader users cannot tell whether auto is active. Expose the current state via `Modifier.semantics { stateDescription = ... }` so it is announced.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -395,12 +401,42 @@ fun SystemMenu(
+                            ) {
+                                Icon(
+                                    imageVector = Icons.Default.ScreenRotation,
+                                    contentDescription = stringResource(R.string.toggle_orientation),
+                                )
+                            }
</file context>

P1: gate the launcher path on the launcher owning the orientation instead
of on PluviaApp.xEnvironment being null. MainViewModel emits the game's
allowed orientations before the container exists, and XServerScreen can
emit while it is still starting, so an xEnvironment gate swallowed portrait-
mode containers and the user's allowed-orientation setting during setup.

P2: from auto, enter the ring at the first entry whose shape differs from
what is on screen. Always entering at ring[0] could request the orientation
already displayed when system rotation is locked to a non-natural
orientation, making the press look dead.

Also gate applyStored on no container running (CodeRabbit), so an activity
recreation during a game session cannot reapply the launcher orientation.

Locked states still walk the ring step by step: auto is part of the ring, so
the walk must test concreteness before matching, which the previous index
check did not.
The event advances to the next state of a table-driven ring, so it is not
always a 90 degree clockwise step (the direction also depends on the panel's
natural orientation).
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