Difference UI for portrait and landscape ipad - ios

Question

I would like to create an application like this:
On iphone (both portrait and landscape) and ipad portrait, I have a table view screen, tap on item row will navigate to another detail screen look like other basic application.
But when I rotate screen to go to landscape on ipad, the screen now has two section views
Here is what I did:
Write a method isInLandscapeTablet to detect ipad landscape
Use UINavigationController as a root controller to control all other views
In portrait screen, push a viewcontroller contains tableview to root controller
In landscape tablet screen, attach tableview controller and detail controller to UISplitViewController, then push it into root controller
But the problem is I can't push UISplitViewController to root controller, as it requires to be a root controller.
I wonder how I can handle this problem
And is my approach correct? Is there any other way?
Update: I change the root view controller like this
// this snippet is in UINavigationController (I use as root viewcontroller)
if([self isInTabletLandscape]){
self.splitViewController.viewControllers = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:[[CategoryViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"CategoryViewController" bundle:nil], self.propertyLandViewController, nil];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow setRootViewController:self.splitViewController];
}else{
// it doesn't work
[[UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow setRootViewController:self];
}
}

Answer 1

After knowing the device whether it is iPad or iPhone. You Can try to remove the RootViewController.
appDelegate.window.rootViewController = nil;
Then you set the root view controller with a new SplitViewContloller
id objClass =[[SplitViewController alloc]initWithNibName:#"SplitViewController" bundle:nil];
masterVC.delegate = detailVC;
detailVC.delegate = objClass;
[objClass setViewControllers:#[masterNavigate,detailNavigate]];
[appDelegate.window setRootViewController:objClass];

Answer 2

My suggestion is not to use Split View Controller at all. Create a custom View Controller, which will embed your table view controller and the 2nd controller. Also, you can implement the interface-rotation logic in the custom controller you create.

Answer 3

If you are developing on iOS 8 you should use Size Classes, so you can totally change the layout depending on iPhone/iPad portrait and iPad Landscape. Unfortunately on iOS 7, size classes only differentiate iPhone and iPad.
In both case the right part (2), can be easily handle with a containerView.

Answer 4

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/WindowsViews/Conceptual/ViewControllerCatalog/Chapters/SplitViewControllers.html
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
MyFirstViewController* firstVC = [[MyFirstViewController alloc] init];
MySecondViewController* secondVC = [[MySecondViewController alloc] init];
if ( ([[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation] == UIDeviceOrientationPortrait) ){
UISplitViewController* splitVC = [[UISplitViewController alloc] init];
splitVC.viewControllers = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:firstVC, secondVC, nil];
window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
window.rootViewController = splitVC;
[window makeKeyAndVisible];
}
else
{
// Display tableview
}
return YES;
}
I assume this may help you..