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This is really an embarrassing week for Google due to some breakups with their partners. Few days back news came from Mozilla Firefox that from 2015 Yahoo will be their default search engine. Google has been the default search engine for Mozilla since 2004 but this time in the year of renewal Mozilla has decided to break the pact and chosen to go with Yahoo.

Apple and Google are enemies and partners at the same time due to asymmetric competition. According to a report from Morgan Stanley, Google could pay more than $1 billion in 2014 to remain the default search engine on iOS. In 2009, Google paid only $82 million for the privilege. Analyst Scott Devitt believes that it is a per-device deal growing every year.

The screenOrientation is the attribute of activity element. The orientation of android activity can be portrait, landscape, sensor, unspecified etc. You need to define it in the AndroidManifest.xml file. For example: The common values for screenOrientation attribute are as follows: Value Description unspecified It is the default value. In such case, system chooses the orientation. portrait taller not wider landscape wider not taller sensor orientation is determined by the device orientation sensor.