I have a scenario where I'm creating the UIViewcontrollers dynamically and adding a UIView on top of it and pushing it to the navigation stack. This is how I have created my view Controller
UIViewController *vc = [UIViewController new];
[vc.view addSubView:customView];
[self.navigationController pushViewController vc];
When running my App on the device, my view doesn't autorotate. (If the VC had a implementation file, I would have returned YES in shouldAutorotate to make it work.)
Any pointers/help is appreciated.
EdITed based on George's Reply:
George's code works perfectly for ios6 and above. supportedInterfaceOrientations API has been made available for ios6.0+, Looking for a general fix for ios4.3+
Thanks..
If your navigation controller is a rootviewcontroller than add this category to the place you created it, if it doesn't help that add to the viewcontroller which must rotate
#implementation UINavigationController(Rotate)
-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
}
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
}
#end
also may be your forgot to add in your app delegate
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow:(UIWindow *)window
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
}
Edit:
For iOS 5 you need only to add this method to needed viewcontroller.
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
return YES;
}
Try this delegate in your viewcontroller
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation {
return YES;
}
So I have the following hierarchy:
UINavigationController --> RootViewController (UIViewController) --> UITableViewController --> DetailViewController (UIViewController)
I want to lock the orientation on RootViewController to Portrait only, but leave all orientations for the rest view controllers.
If I put this to subclassed UINavigationController:
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
// Return YES for supported orientations
return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}
-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
All view controllers are then locked to portrait.
My question is, is there a way to lock only RootViewController to Portrait, but leave all options for other view controllers?
check the link here for fixing autorotation in iOS 6 and set orientation support per view basis: http://www.disalvotech.com/blog/app-development/iphone/ios-6-rotation-solution/
Here is what you could do:
Create a custom navigation controller that is a subclass of UINavigationController, in your .m file:
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return self.topViewController.shouldAutorotate;
}
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return self.topViewController.supportedInterfaceOrientations;
}
In your AppDelegate.h,
#interface AppDelegate : UIResponder <UIApplicationDelegate> {
UINavigationController *navigationController;
ViewController *viewController;
}
#property (strong, nonatomic) UIWindow *window;
#property (strong, nonatomic) ViewController *viewController;
and in AppDelegate.m,
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
// set initial view
self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
viewController = [[ViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"RootViewController" bundle:nil];
navigationController = [[CustomNavigationController alloc]
initWithRootViewController:viewController]; // iOS 6 autorotation fix
[navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:NO];
self.window = [[UIWindow alloc]
initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
[self.window setRootViewController:navigationController]; // iOS 6 autorotation fix
//[self.window addSubview:navigationController.view];
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
}
- (NSUInteger)application:(UIApplication *)application supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow:(UIWindow *)window // iOS 6 autorotation fix
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
}
in your rootViewController, for whatever the event push the second view controller, do this:
- (IBAction)pushSecondViewController:(id)sender {
// push second view controller
SecondViewController *secondViewController = [[SecondViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"SecondViewController" bundle:nil];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:secondViewController animated:YES];
}
in your each view controller, add
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate{}
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations{}
for iOS 6, you can set each view controller whatever the orientation support you want individually.
for iOS 5 and below, you can set
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation{}
All the credits goes to John DiSalvo who wrote the sample app in the link.
Hope this helps.
in singleton
-(void)setOrientationSupport:(BOOL)flag{
flag_orientationSupport_ = flag;
}
-(BOOL)getOrientationSupport{
return flag_orientationSupport_;
}
in appdelegate
- (NSUInteger)application:(UIApplication *)application supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow:(UIWindow *)window
{
if ([singleton getOrientationSupport])
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
else
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
add the following code in viewwillappear
for the viewcontroller you want support orientation
[singleton setOrientationSupport:YES];
to those controller you want disable orientation
[singleton setOrientationSupport:NO];
Put this in your Nav controller:
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return self.topViewController.shouldAutorotate;
}
-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
}
Now, add this to your root view controller:
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return NO;
}
That should do it!
To delegate the responsibility of defining allowed orientations to subviews of a UINavigationController, one can use the visibleViewController property of the nav controller to make the navigation controller "ask" it's child views for their supported orientations. The following code should work (Swift) :
Sub-classed navigation controller:
override func supportedInterfaceOrientations() -> UIInterfaceOrientationMask {
if let visibleView = self.visibleViewController {
return visibleView.supportedInterfaceOrientations()
} else {
return UIInterfaceOrientationMask.All
}
}
Sub-view (root view) of nav controller:
// Restrict to portrait
override func supportedInterfaceOrientations() -> UIInterfaceOrientationMask {
return UIInterfaceOrientationMask.Portrait
}
I have been searching for the solution for hours!
So after implementing the needed methods everywhere. shouldAutorotate doesn't need to be set to YES because it is already set as default:
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation{
return UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait;
}
When it is time to show the UIViewController which needs the orientation different than the other views, I created a UIStoryboardSegue with this implementation inside:
#import "Showing.h"
#implementation Showing
- (void)perform{
NSLog(#"Showing");
UIViewController *sourceVC = self.sourceViewController;
UIViewController *presentingVC = self.destinationViewController;
[sourceVC.navigationController presentViewController:presentingVC
animated:YES
completion:nil];
}
#end
Inside the UIStoryboard I connected the views with this segue (showing):
It is just important, you are using
presentViewController:animated:completion:
AND NOT
pushViewController:animated:
otherwise the orientation won't be determined again.
I had been trying things like
[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarOrientation:UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait];
OR this one inside the UIViewController where the orientation should change, and I also tryied to call it inside my custom UIStoryboardSegues before presentingViewController and dismissViewController:
[UIViewController attemptRotationToDeviceOrientation];
OR
NSNumber *numPortrait = [NSNumber numberWithInt:UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait];
[[UIDevice currentDevice] setValue:numPortrait forKey:#"orientation"];
But no one of them worked. Of course the last example shouldn't be an option, because if apple will change anything of their api this could cause problems inside your app.
I also tried to use the AppDelegate method and always determine the orientation inside this method after looking for the correct UIInterfaceOrientation of the actual visibleViewController but then it sometimes happened to crash when switching from one to another orientation. So I'm still wondering why its made so complicated and there seems also not to be any documentation where it is explained correctly.
Even following this part didn't help me.
my app doesn't support rotation. But I want to present a QLPreviewController that supports rotation.
I present the QLPreviewController like this:
[self presentModalViewController:thePrevController animated:NO];
How can I do this?
Enable all rotations in your application plist file. This will make all views rotate irrespective of the settings in the view controller.
Then subclass your root UINavigationController as below, adding the rotation control code for iOS5 and 6 depending on your requirements:
I was updating an old app with MainWindow.xib, so I changed the class of the navigation controller in the xib file to CustomNavigationController. But in a more modern app with say a main menu, you'd instantiate the nav controller like this:
self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
// Override point for customization after application launch.
MainMenuVC *masterViewController = [[MainMenuVC alloc] initWithNibName:#"MainMenuVC" bundle:nil];
self.navigationController = [[CustomNavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:masterViewController];
self.window.rootViewController = self.navigationController;
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
Subclass UINavigationController
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#interface CustomNavigationController : UINavigationController
#end
#import "CustomNavigationController.h"
#interface CustomNavigationController ()
#end
#implementation CustomNavigationController
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return NO;
}
-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
#end
Then subclass the QLPreview controller so you can override the rotation code which will enable rotation for the QLPreviewController only. The rest of the app with views pushed from your CustomNavContoller will not rotate as the CustomNavigationController is locked.
I added this interface and implementation at the top of the view controller where I wanted to present the QLPreviewController.
#interface RotatingQLPreviewController : QLPreviewController
#end
#implementation RotatingQLPreviewController
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
return (interfaceOrientation != UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown);
}
-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAllButUpsideDown;
}
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return YES;
}
#end
Then present your QLPreviewController using your subclass.
RotatingQLPreviewController *preview = [[RotatingQLPreviewController alloc] init];
preview.dataSource = self;
[self presentViewController:preview
animated:YES
completion:^(){
// do more stuff here
}];
This method should work for other modal views that you want to rotate, but I haven't tried it.
I implemented this method in the latest app I'm working on and works in both iOS5 and 6.
Hope it helps.
In my app I have multiple views, some views need to support both portrait and landscape, while other views need to support portrait only. Thus, in the project summary, I have all selected all orientations.
The below code worked to disable landscape mode on a given view controller prior to iOS 6:
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
// Return YES for supported orientations
return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}
Since shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation was deprecated in iOS6 I've replaced the above with:
-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMask.Portrait;
}
This method is correctly called when the view appears (I can set a breakpoint to ensure this), but the interface still rotates to landscape mode regardless of the fact that I'm returning the mask for portrait modes only. What am I doing wrong?
It seems that it's currently impossible to build an app that has different orientation requirements per view. It seems to only adhere to the orientations specified in the project summary.
If your are using a UINavigationController as the root window controller, it will be its shouldAutorotate & supportedInterfaceOrientations which would be called.
Idem if you are using a UITabBarController, and so on.
So the thing to do is to subclass your navigation/tabbar controller and override its shouldAutorotate & supportedInterfaceOrientations methods.
try change this code in AppDelegate.m
// self.window.rootViewController = self.navigationController;
[window setRootViewController:navigationController];
this is the complete answer
shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation not being called in iOS 6
XD
In my case I have UINavigationController and my view controller inside. I had to subclass UINavigationController and, in order to support only Portrait, add this method:
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait | UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortraitUpsideDown;
}
So in the UINavigationController subclass I need to check which orientation is supported by the current topViewController.
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return [[self topViewController] supportedInterfaceOrientations];
}
One thing I've found is if you have an old application that is still doing
[window addSubView:viewcontroller.view]; //This is bad in so may ways but I see it all the time...
You will need to update that to:
[window setRootViewController:viewcontroller]; //since iOS 4
Once you do this the orientation should begin to work again.
The best way for iOS6 specifically is noted in "iOS6 By Tutorials" by the Ray Wenderlich team - http://www.raywenderlich.com/ and is better than subclassing UINavigationController for most cases.
I'm using iOS6 with a storyboard that includes a UINavigationController set as the initial view controller.
//AppDelegate.m - this method is not available pre-iOS6 unfortunately
- (NSUInteger)application:(UIApplication *)application supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow:(UIWindow *)window{
NSUInteger orientations = UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAllButUpsideDown;
if(self.window.rootViewController){
UIViewController *presentedViewController = [[(UINavigationController *)self.window.rootViewController viewControllers] lastObject];
orientations = [presentedViewController supportedInterfaceOrientations];
}
return orientations;
}
//MyViewController.m - return whatever orientations you want to support for each UIViewController
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
As stated by others if you're using a UINavigationController and you want to customize various views you'll want to subclass the UINavigationController and make sure you have these two components:
#implementation CustomNavigationController
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// supportedInterfaceOrientations:
// Overridden to return the supportedInterfaceOrientations of the view controller
// at the top of the navigation stack.
// By default, UIViewController (and thus, UINavigationController) always returns
// UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAllButUpsideDown when the app is run on an iPhone.
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return [self.topViewController supportedInterfaceOrientations];
}
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// shouldAutorotate
// Overridden to return the shouldAutorotate value of the view controller
// at the top of the navigation stack.
// By default, UIViewController (and thus, UINavigationController) always returns
// YES when the app is run on an iPhone.
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return [self.topViewController shouldAutorotate];
}
Then in any view that is a portrait only you would include:
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
And in any view that is everything but upside down:
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAllButUpsideDown;
}
Basically as someone stated above, but in more detail:
Create a new file that is a subclass of UINavigationController
Go to your storyboard and then click on the Navigation Controller, set its class to the one that you just created
In this class(.m file) add the following code so it will remain in portrait mode:
(BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return NO;
}
(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
This worked for me
This code worked for me:
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate {
return YES;
}
-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
}
iPhone/iPad App Orientation check out my own answer
The best way I think is to do a Category rather than subclassing UINavigationController or UITabbarController
your UINavigationController+Rotation.h
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#interface UINavigationController (Rotation)
#end
your UINavigationController+Rotation.m
#import "UINavigationController+Rotation.h"
#implementation UINavigationController (Rotation)
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return [[self.viewControllers lastObject] shouldAutorotate];
}
-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return [[self.viewControllers lastObject] supportedInterfaceOrientations];
}
- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation
{
return [[self.viewControllers lastObject] preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation];
}
#end
Try to make all your controller import this category and this work like a charm.
You can even make a controller not rotating and pushing another controller that will rotate.
Try add shouldAutorotate method
Firstly in order to make your app work in only mode you should be returning UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape. In case you want to keep only portrait mode, you are doing things correctly.
Just add the UISupportedInterfaceOrientations key in the Info.plist and assign the interface orientation values your app intends to keep.
Also, you should be returning false from shouldAutoRotate in case you want to avoid auto rotation totally. But I would suggest you to return true from here and specify the correct orientations in supportedInterfaceOrientations method.
I have the same situation as you. I know you already accepted an answer, but I thought I'd add another one anyway. This is the way I understand the new version of the rotation system to work. The root view controller is the only view controller to ever be called. The reasoning, I believe, is that with child view controllers it doesn't make sense often to rotate their views since they will just stay within the frame of the root view controller anyway.
So, what happens. First shouldAutorotate is called on the root view controller. If NO is returned then everything stops. If YES is returned then the supportedInterfaceOrientations method is invoked. If the interface orientation is confirmed in this method and the global supported orientations from either the Info.plist or the application delegate, then the view will rotate. Before the rotation the shouldAutomaticallyForwardRotationMethods method is queried. If YES (the default), then all children will receive the will and didRotateTo... methods as well as the parent (and they in turn will forward it to their children).
My solution (until there is a more eloquent one) is to query the last child view controller during the supportedInterfaceOrientations method and return its value. This lets me rotate some areas while keeping others portrait only. I realize it is fragile, but I don't see another way that doesn't involve complicating things with event calls, callbacks, etc.
If you are using UINavigationController, you have to implement shouldAutorotate and supportedInterfaceOrientations in subclass of UINavigationController.
These are able to control by two steps, if shouldAutorotate returns YES then effective supportedInterfaceOrientations. It's a very nice combination.
This example, my mostly views are Portrait except CoverFlowView and PreviewView.
The CoverFlowView transfer to PreviewView, PreviewView wants to follow CoverFlowCView's rotation.
#implementation MyNavigationController
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
if ([[self.viewControllers lastObject] isKindOfClass:NSClassFromString(#"PreviewView")])
return NO;
else
return YES;
}
-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
if ([[self.viewControllers lastObject] isKindOfClass:NSClassFromString(#"CoverFlowView")])
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAllButUpsideDown;
else
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
...
#end
my solution : subclassed UINavigationController and set it as window.rootViewController
the top viewcontroller of the hierarchy will take control of the orientation , some code examples : subclassed UINavigationController
The answers here pointed me in the correct direction although I couldn't get it to work by just cut and pasting because I am using UINavigationControllers inside of a UITabBarController. So my version in AppDelegate.m looks something like this, which will work for UITabBarControllers, UINavigationControllers or UINavigationControllers within a UITabBarController. If you are using other custom containment controllers, you would need to add them here (which is kind of a bummer).
- (UIViewController*)terminalViewController:(UIViewController*)viewController
{
if ([viewController isKindOfClass:[UITabBarController class]])
{
viewController = [(UITabBarController*)viewController selectedViewController];
viewController = [self terminalViewController:viewController];
}
else if ([viewController isKindOfClass:[UINavigationController class]])
{
viewController = [[(UINavigationController*)viewController viewControllers] lastObject];
}
return viewController;
}
- (NSUInteger)application:(UIApplication *)application
supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow:(UIWindow *)window
{
NSUInteger orientations = UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
UIViewController* viewController = [self terminalViewController:window.rootViewController];
if (viewController)
orientations = [viewController supportedInterfaceOrientations];
return orientations;
}
Another key thing to note is that you must override supportedInterfaceOrientations in your UIViewController subclasses or it will default to what you specified in your Info.plist.
I have an app with some views, I need one view to rotate. that view is called by pushviewcontroller. all these views are inside a tabbarcontroller.
I already edit the info.plist to support orientations I added this items to Supported interface orientations:
Landscape (left home button)
Landscape (right home button)
and also added this to the view i want to rotate
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
return YES;
}
but it doesnt work.
what do i need to do? Thanks
UITabBarController have a some problem. the problems is a subviews(selected index) not autorotate.
So, you can make a category, and add a below code.
and, add a #import "UITabBarController+Autorotate.h"
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#interface UITabBarController (Autorotate)
#end
#import "UITabBarController+Autorotate.h"
#implementation UITabBarController (Autorotate)
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
UIViewController *controller = self.selectedViewController;
if ([controller isKindOfClass:[UINavigationController class]])
controller = [(UINavigationController *)controller visibleViewController];
return [controller shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:interfaceOrientation];
}
#end