How to get the home screens on your Nexus 7 to rotate

On most android tablets with gyroscopes the home screens rotates from landscape to portrait and vice versa based on how you hold or orient the device, sadly this does not happen on the Google Nexus 7 right-out-the-box because Google decided to put the android phone user interface on the tablet instead the of tablet user interface.

Can this be “fixed”?  Sure.  There are quite a few ways you can go about getting the home screens to rotate; from tweaking system codes (on rooted Nexus 7s) to installing third-party apps.  One such app is Rotate.  It is available in the Google Play Store so you can take it for a spin if you like and leave your comments or experience after using it in the comment section below.

NB: There is an option towards the middle of the pull down menu at the top of your home screen with a lock and circular arrows which you can tap on to unlock or lock the rotation of running apps, it does not enabled home screens rotation.