Rotation works in iOS6 but not in iOS5 - iphone

I am developing an app that supports iOS 5 & 6 and it is set up to run in Landscape Mode Right only, this is working pretty well under iOS 6 - but as soon as I run it in the iOS 5 Simulator the complete View is some kind of stretched in Portrait Mode, even if the Simulator is turned into Landscape Orientation - it's just the View...

iOS5
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
return YES;
}
iOS6
-(BOOL) shouldAutorotate{
return YES;
}
Note: If you are supporting both versions then you should add both of the methods, they will be called according to the version you are running on your device/simulator.
It is good idea to add the method for supported orientations
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape ;
}

Related

set cocos2-x project to portrait orientation

I am trying to set up my project with portrait orientation, but I am just getting landscape. I am using cocos2d-x (2.1.4).
I have set, as said here:
At RootViewController.mm:
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
return UIInterfaceOrientationIsPortrait( interfaceOrientation );
}
// For ios6, use supportedInterfaceOrientations & shouldAutorotate instead
- (NSUInteger) supportedInterfaceOrientations{
#ifdef __IPHONE_6_0
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
#endif
}
I also tried changing the settings, still nothig.
setDeviceOrientation does not exist anymore...
Anyone knows how I can set the project to portrait??
UPDATE: It seems to work on the device, it only happens on the simulator
I do it this way: In xcode at the top of the file list is the project. Go to that, then the "Targets > whatever" bit. You have "supported Interface orientations". You can check off which orientations you want and don't want. Make sure to note that there are 2 different sections for iPhone and iPad, you'll have to scroll down and set it separately in the iPad orientation section.
I'd imagine the reason it doesn't work in the simulator is that you're using an iPhone/iPod for testing and running the iPad simulator.

iOS 5.1 App running with xcode 4.6.2 with target iOS 5.1, not able to restrict some views from orientation?

I developed an app with Xcode 4.4 and iOS 5.1. I updated Xcode to 4.6.2 and iOS is 6.1, but I have selected the target as iOS 5.1 (even though I am using Xcode 4.6.2). My app supports all orientations.
My question is: I want to restrict some views in landscape mode, it is working fine in the simulator but when I am running the app in iPhone 5 device, my methods are not working, kindly help me?
In your view controller(s) where you want to restrict your orientation I would do the following:
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
return interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscape;
}
Regarding your iPhone 5 the shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation was deprecated with iOS6 so you're going to have to do an OS check and implement/override the supportedInterfaceOrientations and preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation methods instead.
I use this in my app and it works perfect!
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
return UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(interfaceOrientation);
return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft);
}
When you want a view only for portrait use this:
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
return UIInterfaceOrientationIsPortrait(interfaceOrientation);
return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}

ios : MPMoviePlayerViewController all orientation support for the entire portrait app

Entire app is supports only portrait orientation, only playing a video needs to support all the orientations.
The application is running perfectly on iOS < 6.0 in entirely portrait mode, now as the requirement need to support auto-rotation orientation for the MPMoviePlayerViewController (video to play) for iOS 6.0 as well, I've searched many things around, and I got below solutions so I've applied those in my app,
1) Support all the orientations in plist or in targets
2) add the below orientation functions for portrait support
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return NO;
}
- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait;
}
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
3) Override MPMoviePlayerViewController class, and added all suitable orientation methods to support.
4) Put below method in AppDelegate file, and return landscape if you find an object of MPMoviePlayerViewController.
- (NSUInteger)application:(UIApplication *)application supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow:(UIWindow *)window { }
but at last, there's no success! - I can't play video in landscape mode, only portrait is supporting in entire app.
I don't know why its not rotating? Is there something that I'm missing to set?
I recently had to do the opposite in an app I developed, where I had to force video-playback to appear only in landscape mode. What I did was to let my app support all orientations, and instead override my mpMoviePlayerViews shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation method to return YES only for landscape.
Since you want to do the opposite, how about allowing both potrait and landscape for your app - but limiting your regular views to only potrait? (and thus avoiding your problems to allow rotation for your mpmovieplayerview) I think it should be possible to create a parent (view) class that your regular views could inherit from, and in your parent class just override shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation to only support/return YES for potrait mode.

What are the changes in ios 6 as compare to previous versions of xcode?

I was build an app in ios 4.1 but now i am using ios 6 to build it but there are problems in pushviewcontroller and orientation methods. So can any one tell me what are the changes have brought in ios 6?
I think that best solution is to stick to official apple documentation. So according to that I use following methods and everything is working very well on iOS 5 and 6. In all of your ViewControllers override following methods.
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
// Return YES for supported orientations
return UIInterfaceOrientationIsPortrait(interfaceOrientation);
}
Methods for iOS 6, first method returns supported orientation mask (as their name indicate), you can change it into Landscape or what suites you best.
-(NSInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait; //UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait or LandscapeLeft ...
}
second one thats tells your VC which is preferred interface orientation when VC is going to be displayed.
- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait; //tells your VC in which orientation it should be presented, if you set Porttrait it would be in Portrait or otherwise ...
}
This solution is working

IOS 6 view rotation issue [duplicate]

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Autorotate in iOS 6 has strange behaviour
I have issue with IOS 6, the display show up as portrait and not as landscape.
I am using both real and simulator device, if I build the game on 5.1 simulator the view is properly presented if I am using simulator version 6 or the real device with version 6 the view is get portrait view.
Here is my code.
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
if( interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft ||
interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight )
return YES;
Any idea how to solve such issue?
Thanks
ER
ShouldAutoRotation does not work anymore for iOS 6. Use supportedInterfaceOrientations instead.
You can get more information here: http://dhilipsiva.blogspot.com/2012/07/ios-6-ui-interface-orientation.html
Hope this helps.
The method shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation has been deprecated for iOS 6. It has been replaced with the following:
- (BOOL)shouldAutoRotate {
return YES;
}
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape;
}
Also, there's a VERY important detail to make this work. In your AppDelegate, make sure you change the following:
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
[self.window setRootViewController:<your main view controller here>];
}
If you're using [self.window addSubview:self.mainViewController.view], it won't work.
If you want to support iOS 5 as well as iOS 6, leave shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation in your code; just know that it won't be called on iOS6 devices.
The example #Simon gave should be able to coexist peacefully with your original code, with either operating system calling its applicable method. I was able to implement something similar in my app, but I used the project settings to set up autorotation for iOS 6 and just left my shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation alone to make the app compatible with iOS 5 too.