Managing orientation changes in React Native apps

Screen orientation, crucial for effective device interaction, can be managed in React Native applications using the expo-screen-orientation package, which allows developers to fetch the current screen orientation, listen for orientation changes, and lock the screen to a specific orientation such as portrait or landscape. This functionality is achieved through the ScreenOrientation API, which provides methods like getOrientationAsync for acquiring the current orientation and lockAsync for setting a permanent orientation. The API also supports responding to orientation changes with addOrientationChangeListener, which updates the app's UI accordingly. Managing screen orientation is particularly useful for enhancing user experience, for example, ensuring videos are viewed in landscape mode. On Android and iOS, orientation can also be set through project settings like AndroidManifest.xml or Xcode's deployment info, respectively. The expo-screen-orientation package, along with tools like LogRocket, which offers analytics and session monitoring, aids developers in creating adaptable and user-friendly React Native applications.