Preventing screen rotation - good idea

[pledgeX]

I'm currently building an app. All the functionality is in place, I just have to work on the styling.

So far I've been working in primarily in portrait mode. The app still works in landscape, but it looks a bit rubbish. I was planning to correct this so it looked better in landscape, but after sketching a few designs, it's still going to look a bit rubbish in landscape mode when compared to portrait.

So what approach would you take:
- Lock the app to only work in portrait
Or
- Add styling for landscape as best you can, accepting that it doesn't look as nice

 

[puppykickr]

You could choose to lock the app in portrait mode.
Many apps do this, especially ones that don't work well in a particular mode for one reasonor another.

Just keep in mind that there are apps that allow the user to override this setting.