Android 16/17 large screen ignore constraints

[GCyganek]

As in https://developer.android.com/about/versions/17/behavior-changes-17#large-screen-ignore-constraints , there were changes in Platform API in Android 16 to ignore orientation, aspect ratio, and resizability restrictions on large screens (sw >= 600dp) for apps targeting API level 36 or higher.

Based on this I did some research and found a few things worth changing:

1. we set android:resizeableActivity="false"  in the NewDot AndroidManifest which is basically dead because we do not have it in HybridApp AndroidManifest -> users can use our app with split screen so we can remove this flag, as true is the default and is forced on larger screens (where smallest screen width >=600dp)
2. we recreate the main activity every time user drags the handle in the split screen mode which makes the OldDot lose state, we should fix it by adding smallestScreenSize to android:configChanges and by handling onConfigurationChange separately

see example:

Screen.Recording.2026-09-08.at.11.04.03.mov

3. we should change the isTablet predicate to match the Android docs, so that our calls to lock orientation to portrait are not ignored by the platform => change "is 7in screen" to "is 600>=dp smallest screen width"

cc: @mountiny as we discussed this in DMs

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