Android force Horizontal layout - Stack Overflow

Open the AndroidManifest.xml and add the following android:screenOrientation="landscape" e.g.

 <activity android:name=".ActivtyName"          android:screenOrientation="landscape"                  >

o do this at the View level, in case you want to change it dynamically or allow the user to select the orientation... use setRequestedOrientation.

thisView.setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);
thisView.setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);

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