Question

I have a master view controller that’s inside a UINavigationController. In that master view controller, I have a button that pushes a detail view controller that has a UIWebView inside of it. I want this detail view controller to be on landscape mode when it’s loaded. Going back to the master view controller, it forcibly goes back again to portrait mode. I’m running iOS 6 on this.

I have seen the other similar questions but it’s not working on my end. I have created a LandscapeViewController that’s a subclass of UIViewController where I have written these methods:

#pragma mark - Orientation Methods
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape;
}

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
    return YES;
}

This is my code when I push the detail view controller:

DetailViewController *detailVC = [[DetailViewController alloc]
                                      initWithNibName:@"DetailViewController"
                                      bundle:nil];

    [self.navigationController pushViewController:detailVC
                                         animated:YES];

I’m thinking on where to subclass my LandscapeViewController on the code above to make it work or on how to properly subclass and push my detail view controller. I can also present my detail view controller modally if it’s not possible for the navigation controller to push my detail view controller from portrait to landscape. Where am I doing it wrong?

Answer 1

Considering:
View A: Portrait only – View B: Landscape only

I couldn’t do it in the navigation controller. Instead what I did was to open a modal view from view A to view B and force a new navigation controller into this view.

This is working for me in iOS5+.

You need to create a category for the navigation controller like this:

UINavigationController+Rotation_IOS6.h

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h> 

@interface UINavigationController (Rotation_IOS6)

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate;
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations;
- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation;

@end

UINavigationController+Rotation_IOS6.h

#import "UINavigationController+Rotation_IOS6.h"

@implementation UINavigationController (Rotation_IOS6)

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
    return [self.topViewController shouldAutorotate];
}

- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
    return [self.topViewController supportedInterfaceOrientations];
}

- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation
{
    return [self.topViewController preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation];
}

@end

In AppDelegate.m add:

- (NSUInteger)application:(UIApplication *)application supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow:(UIWindow *)window{
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
}

Then in View A:

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate {
    return YES;
}

-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait | UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortraitUpsideDown;
}

- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation
{
    return UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait;
}

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

also in View A to open View B do this:

ViewB *vc = [[ViewB alloc] initWithNibName:@"ViewB" bundle:nil];

UINavigationController *navigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:vc];

[self presentViewController:navigationController animated:YES completion:nil];

And, finally, in View B

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate {
    return YES;
}

-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscapeRight | UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscapeLeft;
}

- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation
{
    return UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight;
}

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
    return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight || interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft);
}