Orientation should change only for the selected viewcontroller - iphone

Question

In my app, Four viewcontrollers navigates next by next in potrait mode, but i added coverflow in the final viewcontroller, and when the simulator is rotated it should go landscape.I selected all orientations in plist execpt the Upsidedown orientation, So that coverflow works fine in Landscape, but all the other viewcontrollers also goes to landscape when rotatad, but i need these viewcontrollers to be in potrait even the simulator is rotated.I tried many codes like,
shouldAutorotate and supportedInterfaceOrientations.
But i doesn't get a clear solution towards what iam expecting, if any ideas , will be thankfull.

Answer 1

Add an observer to the viewDidLoad method of the view you want to rotate like this :
[[UIDevice currentDevice] beginGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter]
addObserver:self selector:#selector(orientationChanged:)
name:UIDeviceOrientationDidChangeNotification
object:[UIDevice currentDevice]];
and then set the views according the the landscape view inside the orientationChanged method like this :
- (void) orientationChanged:(NSNotification *)note{
UIDevice * device = [UIDevice currentDevice];
switch(device.orientation)
{
case UIDeviceOrientationPortrait:
break;
case UIDeviceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown:
break;
case UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeLeft:
break;
case UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeRight:
break;
default:
break;
};
}

Answer 2

Add new Objective-C class (subclass of UINavigationController) and add the following code to the .m files
-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
NSLog(#"supportedInterfaceOrientations = %d ", [self.topViewController supportedInterfaceOrientations]);
return [self.topViewController supportedInterfaceOrientations];
}
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return self.topViewController.shouldAutorotate;
}
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
// You do not need this method if you are not supporting earlier iOS Versions
return [self.topViewController shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:interfaceOrientation];
}
After you added the new classes go to your ViewController classes and make the following changes
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate // iOS 6 autorotation fix
{
return YES;
}
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations // iOS 6 autorotation fix
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
}
- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation // iOS 6 autorotation fix
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait;
}
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation
{
return YES;
}
In the shouldAutorotate , shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: return YES if you want the ViewController to be supporting Multiple orientation else return NO , also in houldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: method pass the Orintation you want for that specific ViewController , Repeat the same for all the view controllers .
Reason of doing this:-
1:Although you can change the preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation: of any viewController to a specific orientation but since you are using the UINavigationController you also need to override the supportedInterfaceOrientations for your UINavigationController
2:In order the override the supportedInterfaceOrientations for UINavigationController we have subclassed UINavigationController and modified the method related to the UINavigation Orientation.
Hope it will help you !

Answer 3

In iOS 6 and later, the view controllers responsible for rotation are the container Viewcontrollers such as UINavigationController & UITabBarController . What are you using as the rootviewcontroller in your project??
I have navigation controller category written here in which you can handle the supported interface orientations for the individual view controllers.

Answer 4

viewDidLoad or viewWillApper method add following code
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarOrientation:UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait animated:YES];
set the orientation
#if (__IPHONE_6_0 >= __IPHONE_OS_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED)
- (NSInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
return (UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortraitUpsideDown | UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait);
}
#endif
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
return (interfaceOrientation==UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}