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Re-posting of following obsolete issue: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/141968218

Storage Application Framework breaks the UI flow of applications that specify their own orientation.

Steps to reproduce: User changes phone settings to ignore rotation sensor and locks the phone to the portrait orientation. User start application that only uses Landscape orientation. User turns phone to match application Application creates an Intent with Intent.ACTION_CREATE_DOCUMENT and starts an activity with this Intent to use the Storage Access Framework save the document. The System UI Content Object Picker obeys the system settings and launches in portrait mode, forcing the user to rotate the phone to pick the filename

Seen in Android 4.4 (API 22) and above

Feature request is to allow the Intent.ACTION_CREATE_DOCUMENT and other SAF related Intents to specify extra data to set the orientation to match the Application launching them.

something like

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_CREATE_DOCUMENT);
        intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_OPENABLE);
        intent.setType(mimeType);
        intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TITLE, fileName);
        intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_ORIENTATION, LANDSCAPE);
        startActivityForResult(intent, WRITE_REQUEST_CODE);