Question

Currently I have only portrait mode in iPhone application. I would like to permit landscape mode for one controller in application but unfortunately I’m not able to make it work.

I have these settings in my plist file:

<array>
    <string>UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait</string>
    <string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight</string>
    <string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft</string>
</array>

And I implemented these methods in my controller:

-(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
    return (interfaceOrientation != UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown);
}

-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAllButUpsideDown;
}

-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
   return YES;
}

I use navigation controller in the app so I realize that it might be the problem. I subclassed the UINavigationController and implemented again shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation, supportedInterfaceOrientations and shouldAutorotate in the same way as above. Of course for I use subclassed navigation controller to show the controller which should have ability to rotate. I also tried to overwrite the methods of navigation controller by category but it also doesn’t work.

I don’t work on the application from the beginning, I inherited the codes. If there is some possibility how to restrict landscape globally it might be my case. For testing I use iPhone 6.0 simulator but my deployment target is 5.0. I appreciate any tips / help.

Answer 1

iOS6 also requires that you set a rootViewController for your window rather than adding the controller’s view as a subview.

If you are doing something like this:

[window addSubview:someController.view];

then you can try changing it to this:

[window setRootViewController:someController];

Also look at this link. For ios6, Apple introduced these two methods :

supportedInter

1. faceOrientations:
2. shouldAutorotate

Hope it helps.

Shumais Ul Haq