UITabBarViewController doesn't rotate - iOS - ios

I have a UITabBarViewController that contains 5 tabs and a login view which is not part of my tab bar, in my settings I have set that I support all device orientations. but when I run my app, only my login view is the only which rotates.
I have created a custom UITabBarController and implemented these methods
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return YES;
}
-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
}
still my tabbar doesn't rotate, but I can see that my status bar disappears when change my device orientation to landscape.
How can I solve this?

Try to override this method, don't call super
- (void)viewWillTransitionToSizeCGSize)size withTransitionCoordinator:(id<UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinator>)coordinator
{
//[super viewWillTransitionToSize:size withTransitionCoordinator:coordinator];
[self.selectedViewController viewWillTransitionToSize:size withTransitionCoordinator:coordinator];
}

I also had a similar problem on Xcode 7, iPad 2, iOS 9.
The view controllers were not passing down the shouldAutoRotate message correctly. I ended up having to uncheck the PortraitUpsideDown option for the project and for some reason, that ended up fixing the issue.

Related

Can't lock rotation to portrait in my iOS 6.1 app

I have an app where landscape left and landscape right are both enabled in the build settings, but I'd only like these to be available in one ViewController in the app.
I'm using a navigation controller, and in the first ViewController I push onto the stack, I'd like to disable rotation altogether. I've tried all 3 of these with no success:
- (BOOL)shouldAutoRotate {
return NO;
}
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
return NO;
}
When I rotate the device in the simulator, the layout still changes. I know the last method is deprecated in iOS 6.
Any ideas?
Fixed it. The reason was because the navigation controller was being rotated, and this was not triggering - (BOOL)shouldAutorotate to be called in the top view controller, as I thought it would.
I subclassed the navigation controller and added
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate {
return NO;
}

InAppSettingKit auto rotate issue

I am using IASK in my app, and I just found a problem. That is when I'm going to change my device orientation, and the main viewcontroller is working well (both iOS 5 & 6). But in the IASK view controller it doesn't work! In addition, the viewcontroller always splash flips the view when I press the settings button to get into the IASK view controller. I am trying to figure out what's wrong in my code. I did add both view orientation methods for iOS 5 & 6 into IASK view controller as well, but it still doesn't perform correctly.
Does anyone know how to solve this kind of problem?
//ios5 autorotate
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
if ((interfaceOrientation==UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait)||(interfaceOrientation==UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown)) {
return YES;
}
else return NO;
}
//ios6 autorotate
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait | UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortraitUpsideDown;
}
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return YES;
}

iPad orientation of iOS app - since new release

Last time I ran an iOS app I made, it must have been on for deployment target 5.0 and the associated SDK (there's a chance it could have been as early as 4.3). The deployment is now 6.1. My app only runs landscape and worked fine in landscape. But after I updated my iPad and iOS SDK and ran this app for the first time in about a year, it seems something has changed.
The buttons show up as if the iPad is in portrait mode. This is wrong, because it should be in landscape (and it used to work just fine).
What has changed in the newest updates?
My supported interface orientations in Xcode have "Landscape Right" selected only and in the Info section I have "Supported interface orientations" with just a single Item: "Landscape (right home button)".
In my main view control that opens when the app first opens, I have
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight ||
interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft);
}
and also the first line of the viewDidLoad is
self.view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 1024, 768);
So why is the code drawing buttons as if it is in Portrait mode?
UPDATE
I have tried to replace the shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation method with
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations{
return UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight & UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft;
}
but it still doesn't work.
Orientation changes in iOS6.0
You should implement the following methods
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return YES;
}
-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape;
}
// Set the initial preferred orientation
-(UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight;
}
Note
If you are using TabBarController/NavigationController you should sub class those view controller to override the orientation methods in such a way that it should call your own view controller methods. This is a significant change in iOS6.
#import "UINavigationController+Orientation.h"
#implementation UINavigationController (Orientation)
-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return [self.topViewController supportedInterfaceOrientations];
}
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return YES;
}
#end
shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation is deprecated in iOS 6, you should override
supportedInterfaceOrientations method of UIViewController
There is quote from doc:
In iOS 6, your app supports the interface orientations defined in your
app’s Info.plist file. A view controller can override the
supportedInterfaceOrientations method to limit the list of supported
orientations. Generally, the system calls this method only on the root
view controller of the window or a view controller presented to fill
the entire screen; child view controllers use the portion of the
window provided for them by their parent view controller and no longer
participate in directly in decisions about what rotations are
supported. The intersection of the app’s orientation mask and the view
controller’s orientation mask is used to determine which orientations
a view controller can be rotated into.
You can override the preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation for
a view controller that is intended to be presented full screen in a
specific orientation.

iOS 6 orientation issues

I have an application which normally is a portrait app and only show landscape view for one UIViewController. It works fine until the new iOS 6 is released.
I really don't understand how orientation works in iOS 6. So I wrote a testing app. Here is what I did:
Set the orientation of the application to support all orientations.
I'm using story board. The rootViewController is embedded in UINavigationController which is in portrait.
The code in rootViewController:
-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait | UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortraitUpsideDown;
}
When I clicked the Open bar button, I'll push another (SecondViewController) view controller which supposed to be in landscape mode:
-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscapeLeft | UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscapeRight;
}
Although this method is called correctly, the second view controller is always also in portrait mode.
Can anybody give me some suggestions? Thanks
Here is my solution:
In second view controller's viewDidLoad:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
UIViewController *viewController = [[UIViewController alloc] init];
[self presentViewController:viewController animated:NO completion:^{
[viewController dismissViewControllerAnimated:NO completion:nil];
}];
}
This will force the second view to rotate to landscape orientation which solved my problem. And it works for iOS 5 and 6.
For iOS-6, I have done this. It is running fine
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait | UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscapeLeft;}
- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation{
return UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft;}
In second View
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation{
return YES;}
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 smooth, I dont like the idea of creating macros and other stuffs, that goes around this simple solution.
Hope this help...

How do I force a specific UIInterfaceOrientation on an individual view in a UINavigationController?

Okay, so here's the situation:
I have an app in which I only want ONE specific view in a UINavigationController to have a landscape orientation. This view is a UIImageView that I'm capturing a signature on (THAT part works awesome). So, like this:
previous view --> signature view --> next view
(portrait) (landscape) (portrait)
I can't seem to find a good way to force the device orientation to landscape on that signature screen. It'll never make sense to have a portrait orientation on the signature view because there's really not adequate room for signing in that screen width.
So, any bright ideas on how to accomplish this? I've considered possibly doing the signature view modally, thus breaking out of the navigation controller. Thoughts?
You can try to force Device to rotate to necessary orientation - but you need to handle it manually (in addition to overriding UIViewController orientation handling methods).
To rotate device you can use next methods:
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarOrientation:UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight];
But in it may not work in all situations...
Also available undocumented approach:
[[UIDevice currentDevice] performSelector:NSSelectorFromString(#"setOrientation:")
withObject:(__bridge id)((void*)UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft)];
Just override this UIViewController method to only return true for landscape like so and the iphone will be forced to rotate to that device orientation, since it has no other option.
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: (UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight);
}
Unfortunately, all root UIViewControllers inside of a Navigation Controller must support any of their child orientations. This means that the first view controller in your setup must support landscape, otherwise the child will only support portrait.
The best way to implement what you are looking for is to create a UIViewController that displays its content view on a rotated transform, and just default all UIViewControllers in that stack to portrait.
I think you can embed this view inside a view controller and overwrite the ShouldRotateToInterfaceOrientation method.
Good luck!
To use a View in only landscape, I have the following in the ViewController:
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight || interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft);
}
This might be what your looking for.
// Rotates the view.
CGAffineTransform transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(3.14159/2);
self.view.transform = transform;
// Repositions and resizes the view.
CGRect contentRect = CGRectMake(-80, 80, 480, 320);
self.view.bounds = contentRect;
from http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-development/1394-landscape-uiviewcontroller-uiview-rotation.html
I have an app that has landscape only views that even starts in landscape. This was working fine in iOS 5.x but stopped working in iOS 6.x
After trying many many things, some more questionable than others, I found a solution that to me is clear and predictable.
I did several things.
-- I kept the views in landscape mode in IB.
-- I checked both landscape modes in the project settings - there a four icons there to control it
-- Orientation mgmt has changed in iOS 6.x. I had to overwrite a few methods to support changing to landscape
this method is for iOS 5.x
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
// Return YES for supported orientations.
return (interfaceOrientation & UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape);
}
these 2 methods are for iOS 6.x
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
NSUInteger supportedOrientations = UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape;
return supportedOrientations;
}
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return YES;
}
-- But the key was to change the logic in the AppDelegate. Original code I had there was adding a subview (controller.view) to the window. This stopped working in iOS 6.x - I changed the call to window.setRootController. That was the final step that sealed it - it would not work without making this final change
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
//[self.window addSubview:viewController.view];
[self.window setRootViewController:viewController];
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
}
The UINavigationController overrides the contain UIViewController orientation settings, so you have to create a custom subclass of UINavigationController with the following for 5.1:
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
if ([[self topViewController] isKindOfClass:[SigCaptureViewController class]]) {
return UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(interfaceOrientation);
} else {
return UIInterfaceOrientationIsPortrait(interfaceOrientation);
}
}
For 6.0 and above you need:
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return YES;
}
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
if ([[self topViewController] isKindOfClass:[EXTRASigCaptureViewController class]]) {
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape;
} else {
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
}
What I haven't figured out is how to make the force the UINavigationController to rotate. calling [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarOrientation:UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight animated:NO] causes the status bar to rotate but doesn't cause the view to rotate.

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