Most applications on Android play nicely with both landscape and portrait orientation. This, however, is unfortunately not the case for all applications, with games and older applications being the leading culprits. While many of these orientation locked apps truly do work best in their preferred orientation, there are many others that are fully capable of working well in the other orientation but are inexplicably rotation locked.
XDA Senior Member defim was tired of this behavior, so he set out to change it with his latest Xposed module, HaveOwnOrientation. As the module name suggests, HaveOwnOrientation allows you to use any application in any screen orientation of your choosing. With the module enabled, applications can no longer lock to any particular rotation setting. Instead, the device will simply remain in its previous orientation. Naturally, not all applications will play nicely when locked into a particular orientation, so if you experience screen anomalies, try going back to the app’s default setting.
Naturally, you need to be rooted and have Xposed Framework installed to use this module. If you meet the above criteria and if apps forcing their own preferred orientation has you pulling out your hair, head over to the HaveOwnOrientation module thread to get started.
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