Question

I have an app which has to work in both portrait and landscape more and the UITabBar should adjust to current orientation (it has custom background and selected items). So, for the rest of views I just override the - (void) didRotateFromInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)fromInterfaceOrientation method and it works perfectly.

How would I do that for the .moreNavigationController of UITabBarController ? I’ve tried adding an observer (the selector is in extension of UITabBarController):

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:@selector(didRotate:)
name:UIApplicationDidChangeStatusBarOrientationNotification
object:self.moreNavigationController];

but it never get called.
Am I missing something or what would be the best way to handle this situation ?

Solution: somewhy UIDeviceOrientation is not firing correctly, so better to use statusBarOrientation, works as a charm.

the final code which work is this:
in main UITabBarController, viewDidLoad:

[[UIDevice currentDevice] beginGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                         selector:@selector(didRotate:)
                                             name:UIApplicationDidChangeStatusBarOrientationNotification
                                           object:nil];

the didRotate selector method:

- (void) didRotate:(NSNotification *)notification{
    UIInterfaceOrientation orientation = [UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarOrientation;
    if(UIInterfaceOrientationIsPortrait(orientation)) {
        // Portrait
    } else {
        // Landscape
    }
}

Thanks for help.

Answer 1

You are registering your UITabBarController for a notification which never gets posted. Take a look at the documentation NSNotificationCenter Reference for the addObserver:selector:name:object method

- (void)addObserver:(id)notificationObserver selector:(SEL)notificationSelector name:(NSString *)notificationName object:(id)notificationSender

notificationSender:
The object whose notifications the observer wants to receive; that is, only notifications sent by this sender are delivered to the observer.
If you pass nil, the notification center doesn’t use a notification’s sender to decide whether to deliver it to the observer.

so, if you specify the . moreNavigationController as the sender, you wont get those notifications, because it never posts such ones. Instead pass nil to ignore the sender and listen to the status bar change regardless of who sent it.

By the way, in this SO Answer is a summary of how you can react to orientation change.

And at last. If it still doesn’t work, you can try this:

[[UIDevice currentDevice] beginGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications];

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                         selector:@selector(didRotate:)
                                             name:UIDeviceOrientationDidChangeNotification
                                           object:nil];