RE: Orientation Lock Down

2024-05-15T18:46:28Z

Hi Will,
I don't think we can force the browser to stay in a portrait layout - that's handled at the app level. Since the SmartBuilder lesson lives inside the browser (Chrome, Safari, etc), we're subject to its behavior.

However, if you don't want to create multiple layouts, we can detect when we're in a different layout, and inform our learners to rotate their phone (or device) back to a portrait orientation. The topic is discussed in more depth here, but here's a video that walks through how to set this up with zero actions:

https://share.smartbuilder.com/public/support/please-rotate-your-phone.mp4

And here's the sample lesson you can play with on your phone - https://lrs.smartbuilder.com/l/u633lw856eb9

Note that with this method, you're pretty much locking out desktop users. Another possible solution is to just create the one phone portrait layout, and if people want to rotate their device and see it super zoomed in and scroll up and down, that's their choice!

Orientation Lock Down

2024-05-14T22:53:09Z

Is it possible to not allow landscape orientations? For example, with a Duolingo lesson on a cell phone one can only view it in the portrait orientation. If you turn your phone 90° the application does not respond. It maintains the portrait orientation. Is this possible with Smart Builder?