Orientations support - iphone

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

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View Controllers in view Controller and orientation iOS

I have iPAD app which has UIViewController A as root view Controller of Navigation Controller.
Now i have 3 more View Controllers B,C, D as subview of ViewController A.
I want B not to respond orientation while C and D should respond to it.
Currently with code all of them respond to orientation change.
There was another answer which says make two separate root ViewControllers and add them into windows View. One of them non rotating and other rotating. I cant do that because i have header in ViewController A which switches B,C,D to make them front viewController.
Anyway please suggest.
Thanks
You need to subclass the UINavigationController like this.
.H
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#interface UINavigationController (Rotation)
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate;
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations;
#end
.M
#import "UINavigationController+Rotation.h"
#implementation UINavigationController (Rotation)
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate {
return YES;
}
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
if ([self visibleViewController] && [[self visibleViewController] isKindOfClass:[B class]]) {
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
}
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
#end
You can create subclass from UINavigationController or make category for it. And implement this methods:
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return [self.topViewController shouldAutorotate];
}
-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return [self.topViewController supportedInterfaceOrientations];
}
- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation
{
return [self.topViewController preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation];
}
And then, in your controllers you should implement this methods with orientations which you want.

Auto Rotate Dynamic UIViewcontroller

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;
}

ViewController in UINavigationController orientation change

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.

Allow Rotation for QLPreviewController independent of parent View

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.

ViewController Not Rotating

I have been having issues forever with an app, and getting certain views to rotate.
I already know that no view in a tab bar controller can rotate, unless ALL are allowed to rotate. I also know that no view within a navigation controller can rotate unless the top most view is allowed to rotate.
I used IB mostly to setup my app.
In the MainWindow.xib I have the AppDelegate Object, Window, TabBarController, and then a separate UIViewController.
Within one of the tabs of the tab bar, I have an IBAction linked to a UIButton with the following code:
-(IBAction)stuff {
[self presentViewController:buletinss animated:YES completion:nil];
}
The view controller is declared in the header file as an IBOutlet, and is linked from that tab class to the UIViewController. In IB, I then set the class for that view controller to a UIViewController class I set up, and return YES to allow it to rotate.
However, it still will not rotate.
I thought that since it was not a part of the tab bar, and not pushed from a navigation controller, that it would be allowed to rotate, but I am having no luck. Please any help?
Here is full code:
First, the .h and .m for the view that has the button:
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#interface BulletinViewController : UIViewController {
IBOutlet UIWebView *worship;
IBOutlet UIActivityIndicatorView *activity;
NSTimer *timer;
IBOutlet UIViewController *buletinss;
}
-(IBAction)stuff;
#property (nonatomic, retain) UIActivityIndicatorView *activity;
#end
and the .m
#import "BulletinViewController.h"
#implementation BulletinViewController
-(IBAction)stuff {
[self presentViewController:buletinss animated:YES completion:nil];
}
Now the .h and the .m of the view it is presenting
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#interface TestBulletinViewController : UIViewController
#end
and the .m
#import "TestBulletinViewController.h"
#implementation TestBulletinViewController
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation {
return YES;
}
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
// Do any additional setup after loading the view.
}
- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning
{
[super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
// Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}
#end
Try change this code
[self presentViewController:buletinss animated:YES completion:nil];
to
[self presentModalViewController:buletinss animated:YES];
UPD: in iOS 6 you must:
1)
Replace
[window addSubview:buletinss.view];
with
window.rootViewController = buletinss;
2)
Add this code lines
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return YES;
}
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape;
}
It's hard to know what's going on without seeing your project. You're doing a very odd thing: why are you loading a view controller from a nib? You are saying:
IBOutlet UIViewController *buletinss;
Why? Why are you not explicitly instantiating a BulletinViewController and setting the ivar to that?
I'm betting that the problem is that in the nib, this object is not a BulletinViewController. It's probably just a generic UIViewController. Hence your BulletinViewController code is irrelevant; none of it ever runs. Instead, you've got a generic UIViewController that only rotates to portrait. But that's just a guess.