This bug report was migrated from our old Bugzilla tracker.

Reported in version: 2.0.0
Reported for operating system, platform: Android (All), ARM

Comments on the original bug report:

On 2013-08-15 14:14:38 +0000, Joe LeVeque wrote:

I'm trying to get my app to run in landscape mode only on Android. I tried setting the orientation in AndroidManifest.xml to no avail, so instead I added the following java code in onCreate():

// Force landscape orientation
this.setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);

This does force the orientation to rotate when the app starts, and appears to prevent the screen from rotating while the app is running - that's great. If my phone is already in landscape mode when I launch the app, the app runs fine. However, if the phone is in portrait mode when the app is launched, the app will start, but will be killed after a frame or two and I see the following in the logcat:

E/libEGL(3988): call to OpenGL ES API with no current context (logged once per thread)
D/dalvikvm(3988): threadid=15: thread exiting, not yet detached (count=0)
I/WindowState(699): WIN DEATH: Window{41ca3af8 u0 SurfaceView}
I/ActivityManager(699): Process (pid 3988) has died.
W/ActivityManager(699): Force removing ActivityRecord{41e487b0 u0 }: app died, no saved state
I/WindowState(699): WIN DEATH: Window{41c8b550 u0 }

So, it appears as though the OpenGL context is somehow getting trashed even though the context isn't getting created until after the rotation has been done. This appears to be a bug in SDL2.

No evidence of a crash, and no stack trace is generated. It seems as though the app is somehow exiting normally. I'm willing to help find and fix this issue.

On 2013-08-15 21:31:04 +0000, Joe LeVeque wrote:

Update:

This seems to be related to calling SDL_Init() without SDL_INIT_VIDEO, and subsequently calling SDL_VideoInit(NULL) at a point later in code. I replaced the above with SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING), and the problem disappears.

On 2013-08-15 22:20:15 +0000, Gabriel Jacobo wrote:

There's a few changes coming in the EGL management code on Android (see # 2037) that will hopefully reduce the crazyness of SDL on Android. Let's revisit this after that patch lands.

On 2013-11-06 14:25:38 +0000, Gabriel Jacobo wrote:

Are you still seeing this issue?

On 2013-11-06 19:11:46 +0000, Joe LeVeque wrote:

Since I found that calling SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING) works without issue, I had been using that in my code. However, I just switched my code back to call SDL_Init() without SDL_INIT_VIDEO, and then call SDL_VideoInit(NULL) later, and unfortunately, the problem reappeared with the exact same symptoms and logcat output.

On 2017-08-23 13:55:25 +0000, Sylvain wrote:

I tried and it seems to be working.

( setting landscape in onCreate(), starting in portrait, using SDL_VideoInit(NULL))

On 2017-09-04 20:41:26 +0000, Sam Lantinga wrote:

This seems to be fixed in the latest SDL snapshot:
http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL-2.0.zip

Please reopen this bug if you can reproduce this with the same output.

Thanks!