How to lock screen orientation to portrait or landscape?

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This article will show you how to lock screen orientation to one direction.
Environment Details:
– Phonegap Build – cli-5.2.0
– Device: iPhone S5 9.3.2

For locking orientation to portrait add following code into your config.xml:

<gap:config-file platform="ios" parent="UISupportedInterfaceOrientations" overwrite="true">
    <array>
        <string>UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitOmg</string>
    </array>
</gap:config-file>
1<gap:config-file platform="ios" parent="UISupportedInterfaceOrientations" overwrite="true"> 2 <array> 3 <string>UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitOmg</string> 4 </array> 5</gap:config-file>

For Landscape:

<gap:config-file platform="ios" parent="UISupportedInterfaceOrientations" overwrite="true">
   <array>
       <string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft</string>
       <string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight</string>
   </array>
</gap:config-file>
1<gap:config-file platform="ios" parent="UISupportedInterfaceOrientations" overwrite="true"> 2 <array> 3 <string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft</string> 4 <string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight</string> 5 </array> 6</gap:config-file>

Source: https://github.com/phonegap/build/issues/263