[SOLVED] On Android phone: Landscape mode not supported

[Gerardus]

Hi,

I use my Android-phone as the UI for some years with a Chrome-shortcut. Very simple and effective. Just what i need. Since the 8.2.x update some changes had been made in the coverview. When I turn my phone in landscape, it recently says "Landscape mode not supperted". Tried searching the forum for reasons and solutions but found nothing. Or I just don't understand ?. Can I fix this somehow? 

Thanks in advance for support.
Gerardus

[Tim Curtis]

The current CSS does not render the UI correctly in landscape orientation on smartphone sized screens (viewport <= 432px) and thus the UI ends up being badly clipped and almost unusable.

How are you currently using the UI in landscape?

[Gerardus]

The current CSS does not render the UI correctly in landscape orientation on smartphone sized screens (viewport <= 432px) and thus the UI ends up being badly clipped and almost unusable.

How are you currently using the UI in landscape?

Don't know exactly what you're asking. Now I can't use landscape because it ends with "Landscape is not supported". If you asked how I used it: on the left the played songs in the queu and the forthcoming songs in the queu (=the main reason why I used it). In the middle "Time passed" and "Volume" and on the albumcover on the right.

[Tim Curtis]

Is it that portrait mode is too difficult to use?

I'm trying to find out what advantage landscape mode offers on smartphone sized screens.

[Gerardus]

No, portrait mode is very easy and useful. Love it. But again, when I want to look at the forthcoming tracks in the queue, I switch very quick and easily to the landscape mode.

[Nutul]

No, portrait mode is very easy and useful. Love it. But again, when I want to look at the forthcoming tracks in the queue, I switch very quick and easily to the landscape mode.

Cannot you just scroll up the album art, in portrait view, to uncover the playing queue?

Cheers, Al.

[Tim Curtis]

In portrait mode:

- Swiping up reveals the Queue.
- Taping on the song title under the cover reveals the Queue and scrolls to the item
- Tapping on the Playbar returns to Playback view

[Gerardus]

My oh my! Using Moode for some years and never discovered this. Thanks!

[Tim Curtis]

I'll add a Mobile section to Quick help for the upcoming 8.2.3 release :-)

[chano22000]

Hi Tim,

I just fresh installed v8.2.2 coming from v7.1.0. I too experienced the mssing landscape mode which I always used on my android phone. I understand this lost feature to be yet by design :

The current CSS does not render the UI correctly in landscape orientation on smartphone sized screens (viewport <= 432px)

Is there a easy way to restore the v7 behavior (such as patching the 432 viewport min size in style.min.css by 412 in my case) ?

My Samsung Galaxy A71 smartphone screen specs :

• Resolution : 2400x1080 pixels (20/9)
  
• Size : 6.7"
  
• Viewport (as found on the Internet) : 914x412
  

Thank you for your work (and hopefully your answer !)

Best regards.

Philippe