Question

I have an app that is on the app store supporting version ios5+. When I deployed this app to the store the base sdk was set to 5.0 and the deployment target was ios 5.0. It is currently running fine on ios 5 and 6 devices.

I have since upgraded my IDE to ios 6.0 – the base SDK is 6.0 and the deployment target is 5.0. however when I run this app in the 6.0 simulator or device I get shouldautorotate issues due that message being depreciated.

1. Why if my deployment target is 5.0 is giving me these issues – I don’t want to use ios 6.
2. Why can I not set my base sdk to 5.0?

Update:
This is how my controller looks currently. Unfortunately the preferredInterfaceOrientation is only getting called once not every time the orientation changes – this is no good for me as I manipulate the view in this method:

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation
{
    [self layoutHomeViewButtons:toInterfaceOrientation];

    return YES;
}

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
    return YES;
}

- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation
{
    return UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight;
}

- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{

    [self layoutHomeViewButtons:[self getInterfaceOrientation]];

    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
}

Update 2:
I have figured out how to get the supportInterfaceOrientations method to get called. In my MainWindow.xib I have a navigationcontroller set as the window’s root view controller. As a subitem of this navigationcontroller I have my homeviewcontroller where the code above resides.

If I change this link so that the window’s rootviewcontroller is the homeviewcontroller then the method gets called. However I need this navigationcontroller for my ui!

Answer 1

The reason why these ios6 methods were not being called is because I was setting the rootviewcontroller of the window to be a navigationcontroller instead of my homeviewcontroller and that is why the methods were not called.

This is not useful for my solution so I am searching for answers but this does solve this question.

See my follow up question where I am trying to figure out how to have my navigationcontroller as the rootviewcontroller: iOS 6 bug: supportedInterfaceOrientations not called when nav controller used as window root