Stopping surface view from rotating when displaying camera preview

I have a surface view displaying a camera preview which looks good in landscape mode, but when I rotate my phone to portrait the surface view rotates and the camera preview is on its side which looks wrong.

When I fix my application orientation to landscape in my AndroidManifest.xml, th开发者_JAVA百科e surface view behaves how I want it to, in that it doesn't rotate and the camera preview works great.

The problem is that I have other objects on the screen which need to rotate with the phone's orientation, which now doesn't because I've set the orientation to landscape.

Can anyone help me with a way to get everything apart from the surface view to rotate when the phone rotates, or if that is not possible a way to get the current physical orientation of the phone when the applications orientation is set to landscape, so that I can rotate my other objects manually.

Thanks, Andrew

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Camera.Parameters have a setRotation() method. Use it to rotate the camera when you change from landscape to portrait and vice versa. Then you don't have to bother about separating your layouts from the surface view.

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public void surfaceDestroyed(SurfaceHolder holder){
    if(mCamera!=null){ 
        mCamera.stopPreview(); 
        mCamera.setPreviewCallback(null); 
        mCamera.release();       
        mCamera=null; 

    }
}