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Some Android devices offer a slide-out keyboard that triggers rotating the screen from portrait to landscape orientation. Other devices use accelerometers to determine when the screen rotates. As a result, it is reasonable to assume that switching from portrait to landscape orientation and back again may be something that users of your application will want to do.
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Allen, G. (2012). Handling Rotation. In: Beginning Android 4. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3985-7_19
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