Is it possible to detect the orientation of a mobile device in a blueprint?

Development Programming & Scripting
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Is it possible to tell which way up a device is being held, I.e portrait / landscape? I’m wondering if I can utilise both orientations for a game, for example show the environment when in landscape, and the inventory when in portrait?

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I suppose another question could be - is it possible to disable a devices automatic screen rotation within the game, and use the tilt values to determine its orientation?

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Hey OnePunchPete,

Currently we detect the device screen orientation on a hardware level that is not exposed to blueprints by default. I’m going to file a feature request for the team to look into exposing that information, hopefully we can make that available soon.

Thanks!

-Steve

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That would be great, thanks Steve!

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Can someone point me to where it is in code so I can expose it via blueprint for my project. I really need this functionality!

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any update on this? Is there a Jira ticket link we can vote on and see what is the planned engine version?

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There is a Get Device Orientation, but it always return unknown to me.

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I was looking through the code for this, its only implemented on iOS.