Question

I have a UITabBar application with embedded UINavigation for some of the views. On one specific navigationview I am displaying graphs/charts and it would be better to display them in landscape as if the iPhone was rotated to the left or right. The rest of the app is better suited to portrait. So I want to “force” the views containing graphs to load in landscape regardless of how the user has the device physically rotated. I’ve tried:

#pragma mark - Rotation
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
    return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft);
}

But this does not seem to do anything to the view. If I select the “Landscape Left” icon in the “Supported Interface Orientations” for my target then it allows the entire app to re-orientate on rotation of the device. Is there a way to lock my app in portrait for all normal views and lock in landscape for my views containing graphs such that the app ignores the actual device orientation?

Answer 1

Firstly I am using iOS 6 SDK.

I am using a custom TabBar Controller.
and controlling the orientation of that TabBar Controller by the below set of codes

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
    // You do not need this method if you are not supporting earlier iOS Versions
    return [self.selectedViewController shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:interfaceOrientation];
}

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

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
    return YES;
}

And the view controller should contain

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)orientation {
    return UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(orientation);
}

This is what I did and was able to lock a view to landscape or portrait (in my case). To force may be you can put a alert view stating the user to turn the device to landscape and show him the graph. Just a suggestion.