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Clover Station operates differently than other Clover devices. Screen orientation on Station is triggered by the swivel mount. It is not triggered by sensor orientation (it has no such sensors). Station is an oddball and all future Clover devices will operate in locked orientation mode.

If the original Station is supported by an app, it should not depend on the default screen rotation behavior of the device. Rather, call out the screen orientation mode explicitly in your manifest or code as described below. This will ensure proper operation on all Clover devices.

By default apps that run on locked orientation Clover devices (Mini, Mobile, Flex and Station 2018) will orient according to respective default orientation, and will not change with the sensed orientation. If an app wishes to support screen rotation or otherwise use a different orientation mode, they must call it out explicitly in their manifest using the screenOrientation activity attribute. For example:

<activity name="..."
  ...
  android:screenOrientation="sensor"
  ...
/>

Alternatively, screen orientation can also be set at runtime with the Activity.setRequestedOrientation() method:

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  setContentView(...);
  setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_SENSOR);
}