In the past I mentioned a useful app called Orientation Control which provides more fine-grained control over when and how the screen rotates on an Android device (in my case a Galaxy Tab tablet). But I was still annoyed by the fact that with certain apps that I always want to launch in one particular orientation mode, I would always have to go through the cumbersome process of switching the orientation manually before opening the app.
There are three apps which I always want to use in portait mode: Amazon Kindle reader, EZ PDF, and Mobile Sheets. These are all reading apps and portrait mode is simply the best way to display the documents in them.
While searching for a solution to the manual screen rotation annoyance I came across a really cool app called Ultimate Rotation Control. This app really is the the ultimate rotation control utility for Android. It allows one to set app-specific settings. So I can set it to always open the three aforementioned reading apps in portrait mode. I cannot describe how nice it is to just be able to launch the app and have the screen automatically rotate. Then, when the app is closed or the Home screen button is pushed, the screen will switch back to whatever is set as the global default.
This is a feature which really should be built into Android but at least there’s Ultimate Rotation Control to provide a good solution.
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