How to : autorotation on iPad and portrait only on iPhone? - iphone

Question

Hi I have just started iPhone programming. I created a universal app for iPad and iPhone in Xcode 3.2 and evrerything is working fine. But now I want to implement following feature in that app:
It should support autorotation on iPad and be portrait only on iPhone.
I have no idea how to do that.
I have an AppDelegate_iPad delegate file,
an AppDelegate_iPhone delegate file,
and a viewcontroller under Shared tab and is share by both of these delegates.
Any ideas how can I implement that feature. any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Vik

Answer 1

In the view controller(s) for the view(s) where you want to implement this rotation behavior, do the check inside the shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation, like this:
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: (UIInterfaceOrientation) interfaceOrientation {
UIDevice* thisDevice = [UIDevice currentDevice];
if (thisDevice.userInterfaceIdiom == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad)
{
return true;
}
else
{
return interfaceOrientation == UIDeviceOrientationPortrait;
}
}

Answer 2

Apps running iOS 6+ will also want to implement ViewController's:
- (NSInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
and/or AppDelegate's:
- (NSUInteger)application:(UIApplication *)application supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow:(UIWindow *)window
E.g.,
- (NSInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
if ([UIDevice currentDevice].userInterfaceIdiom == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad) {
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
}
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}