Question

I only want to support different Orientations on one View in my UINavigationController Stack. How can I do this?

It also has to work in iOS5.

Answer 1

I’ve had a lot of trouble with how iOS6 handles Orientation, hopefully this is what you’re looking for.

Create a category of UINavigationController and call it “UINavigationController+autoRotate”.

Put this in your UINavigationController+autoRotate.h:

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface UINavigationController (autoRotate)

-(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation;
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate;
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations;

@end

Put this in UINavigationController+autoRotate.m:

#import "UINavigationController+autoRotate.h"

@implementation UINavigationController (autoRotate)

-(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
    return [self.topViewController shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:interfaceOrientation];
}

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


- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
    if (![[self.viewControllers lastObject] isKindOfClass:NSClassFromString(@"ViewController")])
    {
        return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAllButUpsideDown;
    }
    else
    {
        return [self.topViewController supportedInterfaceOrientations];
    }
}

@end

For Views that you DO NOT want to rotate, add:

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

- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
    return NO;
}

And for Views you DO want to rotate:

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

- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAllButUpsideDown;
}

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
    return YES;
}

In your App’s delegate, add:

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