Orientation - Need a plugin?

I have been reading posts and do we actually need to use a plug in to lock our orientation?

I have set the game orientation to Landscape.

First line of first On Start Layout is Browser: Lock Orientation Landscape.

Game only runs in portrait?

Building using XDK and set orientation to Landscape there as well.

Thoughts? Thank you.

I would like to know that too!

Seems crazy to think we would need a plugin for such a basic feature for all apps.

You don't.

And using XDK and setting the orientation property in the project should do the trick.

Be sure that you are not setting the configuration in the tab for an export you are not using (ie: Android tab when you are exporting as Android-Crosswalk).

See this part in that tutorial.

See Fullscreen and orientation lock in browsers.

tl;dr - in browsers orientation lock only takes effect in fullscreen mode, and you can only enter fullscreen mode in a user input trigger.