Android tutorial - Android studio tutorial | How to Add/Create Landscape Layout in Android Studio - android studio tutorial
![landscape layout](https://mail.wikitechy.com/cdn/tutorials/android/landscape-layout.gif)
What is Landscape Layout?
- Users will often switch to landscape orientation for comfort or more horizontal screen space.
- But we must make sure that controls are accessible to User even if screen orientation is changed & also should feel comfortable to work on it.
- When the screen orientation is changed & also how to organize the controls when the orientation is changed to landscape layout.
Add/Create Landscape Layout in Android Studio
- In android, every application is designed with both the orientations
- Portrait orientation and
- Landscape orientation.
- By default, Android Studio provides you the option to design your application in Portrait mode but for Landscape we need to make some extra settings or more specifically
- We need to add/create a Landscape Layout folder under res folder.
- As per Android developer website guide lines the name of this folder should be “layout-land”. You need to create the same.
How to Add / Create Landscape Layout in Android Studio
Step 1:
- Open your Android Studio and if your project is opened in “Android” perspective then change it to “Project” Perspective (Option is available on the Left side of your android studio)
![project perspective android studio](https://mail.wikitechy.com/cdn/tutorials/android/project-perspective-android-studio.jpg)
Step 2:
- Open App folder inside your project folder
Step 3:
- Then open src > main >res.
- you have all the folder which help in creating UI for your app.
![layout landscape](https://mail.wikitechy.com/cdn/tutorials/android/app-src-res-folder-in-android-studio.png)
Step 4:
- Right click on res folder click New>Directory.
- Android studio will open a dialog box.
![create new directory android studio](https://mail.wikitechy.com/cdn/tutorials/android/create-new-directory-in-res-android-studio.jpg)
Step 5:
- Inside Dialog box you have to give a directory name or you can say name of our new folder.
- So, it would be “layout-land”.
- Click Ok button.
![layout land directory](https://mail.wikitechy.com/cdn/tutorials/android/layout-land-directory-in-res-folder-android-studio.jpg)
Step 6:
- Now you have “layout-land” folder in your project.
- Right click on it New>XML>Layout XML file.
- This file will be create inside layout folder(portrait)
![layout xml file in layout land folder android studio](https://mail.wikitechy.com/cdn/tutorials/android/layout-xml-file-in-layout-land-folder-android-studio.jpg)
Step 7:
- Cut the layout xml file
![layout cut xml android studio](https://mail.wikitechy.com/cdn/tutorials/android/cut-layout-xml-android-studio.jpg)
Step 8:
- Paste it under your “layout-land” folder and click ok button.
- Now open your xml file.
- You will get the Landscape mode.
![paste in land layout](https://mail.wikitechy.com/cdn/tutorials/android/paste-layout-in-layout-land-android-studio.jpg)
Additional Options to create landscape based android app:
- In the current version of Android Studio (v1.0.2)
- you can simply add a landscape layout by clicking on the button in the visual editor shown in the screenshot below. Select "Create Landscape Variation"
![additional option landscape layout](https://mail.wikitechy.com/cdn/tutorials/android/additional-option-create-landscape-layout.png)