Tabbar controller with navigationcontrollers orientation ios 6 - ios

I'am currently working on an project where we have a tab bar controller with 4 tabs, and where each tab have an navigation controller. On each of these navigation controller there is multiple viewcontrollers pushed on it.
I read a lot of post here and other places, and we have currently done the following:
Subclassed UITabbarcontroller
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return [[[self.viewControllers objectAtIndex:self.selectedIndex]topViewController] shouldAutorotate];
}
- (NSUInteger) supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return [[[self.viewControllers objectAtIndex:self.selectedIndex]topViewController]supportedInterfaceOrientations];
}
- (BOOL) shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation{
return [[[self.viewControllers objectAtIndex:self.selectedIndex]topViewController] shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:toInterfaceOrientation];
}
This work fine, if we in each of our viewcontrollers specify the following:
- (NSUInteger) supportedInterfaceOrientations{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation{
return YES;
}
This will lock it to Portrait as expected.
But now the real problem occurs!
If we in our viewcontroller on one of the tabs specify that it should rotate to landscape it works fine, but when we then change tab it is still in landscape, which is not what we want!
So to sum up, have anyone got a solution to how you lock almost all views to a given orientation expect one, and can change tabs where they are in the orientation you specified (here portrait)?
I also read this post iOS 6 UITabBarController supported orientation with current UINavigation controller, but as one comment also mentioned "This is almost working for me. The problem is if I am already in landscape when I switch tabs to a portrait only view it is still in landscape. Rotating portrait fixes it and it won't rotate back to landscape, but I still need it be in portrait when it first loads" which almost is the same here..

I myself had this problem and i worked out a solution, its not pretty but it works.
In your TabbarController subclass implement this tabbarcontroller delegate function (remember to set delegate):
-(void)tabBarController:(UITabBarController *)tabBarController didSelectViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController{
int selected = self.selectedIndex;
UIViewController *con = [[UIViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"XIBName" bundle:nil];
[[self.viewControllers objectAtIndex:selected] pushViewController:con animated:NO];
[[self.viewControllers objectAtIndex:selected]popViewControllerAnimated:NO];
[[self.viewControllers objectAtIndex:selected] setDelegate:nil];
}
The push and pop on the uinavigationcontroller in the tabs navigationcontroller will make the tabbarcontroller fire its Orientations functions again, and if you implemented the orientations code correctly it will change to your desired orientation.
i hope this helps, please fell free to comment if i need to explain anything in details.
Best Regards
Morten

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Auto rotate in iOS7 and iOS8

I am developing an application which is in portrait mode.
But I want one view controller should display in landscape as well as in portrait mode.
I tried the following code but it doesn't work (not called).
- (BOOL) shouldAutorotate
{
return NO;
}
- (BOOL) shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
First, you need to set in your plist all the orientations your app supports, this can be done in the 'General' tab in the project under "Deployment Info", for example:
Then, you can use the method supportedInterfaceOrientations,
I assume you are presenting the view controller modally, so simply override it, on the presenting viewController, which need to be only in portrait use:
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
and in your presented viewController, which should also supports landscape, use: (or whatever orientation mask you would like)
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAllButUpsideDown;
}
P.S - there is a different behavior for viewController that is presented modally and for a viewController that push in a navigationController stack:
modalViewController will call its own supportedInterfaceOrientations, and will support these orientations
pushedViewController will call its navigationController supportedInterfaceOrientations, and will support these orientation.
So, if you are presenting the viewController modally, you need to override its own supportedInterfaceOrientations, but if you push this viewController, you need to set some BOOL property in the navigationController, so it will know which orientations to supports.
I advise you to present this viewController modally, it's more natural to use modalViewController for different device orientations.
P.S #2: about shouldAutorotate: if it returns 'NO', than supportedInterfaceOrientations is not called, so return 'YES'. It only says, if to rotate automatically when the device rotates. if it returns 'NO', you need to explicit rotate the viewController.
Well I hope I helped and didn't write an answer that is completely not regarded to what you asked... :)

How to present a view controller in portrait or landscape, in application that is portrait-only

I have an iPhone application most of which is portrait-only, but with one view controller (a video player screen) that has to support both portrait and landscape (this is for iOS 8 only). To achieve this, I have set the app's plist to support portrait and both kinds of landscape, then subclassed UINavigationController; in this subclass I override
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate {
return YES;
}
and
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
if ([self.visibleViewController isKindOfClass:[MyVideoPlayerScreen class]]) {
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAllButUpsideDown;
} else {
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
}
This mostly works as expected: the initial screens are all portrait-only, and remain in portrait even when the device is turned to landscape. The video player, when initially presented:
MyVideoPlayerScreen *newVC = [MyVideoPlayerScreen new];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:newVC animated:YES];
is also in portrait but will then rotate to landscape when the device is turned - all good so far.
The problem is that if I turn the device to landscape, the video player goes landscape as well, but then when I dismiss the video player screen via the back button, the underlying view controller (which is supposed to be portrait-only) is now also in landscape. If I rotate the device back to portrait the view controller rotates back to portrait as well, and it is then correctly locked in portrait-only from that point on.
How can I get the original view controller (which is supposed to be portrait-only) to automatically go back to portrait when the landscape view controller above it is popped?
This question has been asked a million times, but it seems that the fixes that were posted for it are all hacks that don't work in iOS 8 any more.
Update: I have found a "sort-of" fix for this that does work in iOS 8. In my UINavigationController subclass, I handle the <UINavigationControllerDelegate> protocol. I implemented this method:
- (void)navigationController:(UINavigationController *)navigationController didShowViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated {
if (![viewController isKindOfClass:[MyVideoPlayerScreen class]]) {
// if the current orientation is not already portrait, we need this hack in order to set the root back to portrait
UIInterfaceOrientation orientation = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarOrientation];
if (orientation != UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait) {
// HACK: setting the root view controller to nil and back again "resets" the navigation bar to the correct orientation
UIWindow *window = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow];
UIViewController *vc = window.rootViewController;
window.rootViewController = nil;
window.rootViewController = vc;
}
}
}
This at least leaves the UI in the state I want it to be in. The problem is that when the top-level view controller is dismissed and animated off-screen, the underlying view controller is still in landscape; then it suddenly jumps to portrait. Not ideal, but better than nothing.
Update 2: I should have added that I am pushing the second view controller like so:
ViewControllerPortraitLandscape *newVC = [ViewControllerPortraitLandscape new];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:newVC animated:YES];
Update 3: OK, this is totally doable, in a way that works for iOS 6 and up. The fix even kind of makes sense, although the reason for it's working does not seem to be in the documentation anywhere. Basically, in the view controller that you need to be reset to portrait when the top-level view controller is dismissed while the device is still in landscape, you just need to add this:
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
Although my subclass of UINavigationController is entirely responsible for the rotation calls, breakpoints show that supportedInterfaceOrientations is called on the underlying view controller just before the top-level is dismissed, and it's called on the navigation controller after the top-level is dismissed. So I'm inferring that this call to the view controller itself is made by iOS in order to determine what orientation the underlying view controller should be in (and it does not ask the nav controller for this); if it's not explicitly overridden it will return the all-but-upside-down parameter, so iOS just leaves it where it is, in landscape.
Turns out this is an easy fix: you can drive the entire process via a subclass of UINavigationController as I posted here (i.e. not implementing any of these rotation methods in the view controllers themselves), except that for any view controller that needs to be portrait-only, you also need to implement this:
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
With breakpoints, you can see that this method is called before the pushed view controller above it is dismissed; iOS presumably uses this call to determine what orientation the "revealed" view controller should be in (the same call to the navigation controller subclass is called after the top-level view controller is dismissed).
With this method implemented in the view controller, everything works as expected.
Be portrait EXCEPT when presenting a particular UIViewController subclass. This article helped a lot: ~~removed because of spam~~
set the Info.plist to support, portrait, landscape left, landscape right
implement application:supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow: like so:
- (NSUInteger)application:(UIApplication *)application supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow:(UIWindow *)window
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait | UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscapeLeft;
}
// (I specifically want landscape left for the movie viewing)
subclass UINavigationController(the windows' rootViewController) and override like so:
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return YES;
}
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait; // enforces the “portrait everything” requirement
}
finally, I had to make sure the custom player view controller would "override" the supported orientation:
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return NO;
}
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape;
}
- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft;
}
Result:
UIViewController subclass presents but when dismissing the custom view controller, the presenting view controller is Portrait.
From fantageek article: "The system intersects the view controller’s supported orientations with the app’s supported orientations (as determined by the Info.plist file or the app delegate’s application:supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow: method) to determine whether to rotate."
I think you should change to this and try again
-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
if ([self.visibleViewController isKindOfClass:[MyVideoPlayerScreen class]])
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape;
}
else
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
}
Here's how you do it.
Implement these 3 methods on both presenting and presented controller:
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate {
return NO; //-- for presented controller use YES
}
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape; //-- any orientation you need
}
- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation {
return UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight;
}
and now you can use in the presenting controller:
[self presentViewController:presentedController animated:true completion:nil];
This way, when you go back to presenting controller, it will have the correct orientation.
My case has 3 view controller:
- first view controller: portrait
- second view controller: landscape right (has navigation controller and was presented by first view controller)
- third view controller: portrait (has navigation controller and was pushed by second view controller )
And my solution had already here. Hope this helps

UIModalPresentationCustom messes up orientation settings

When presenting a modal with UIModalPresentationCustom, it ignores the orientation methods, and displays / rotates to whatever the presenting VC is configured to.
Example:
Presenting VC supports Landscape and Portrait.
Presented VC supports Portrait only (via preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation and supportedInterfaceOrientations.
When presenting it in landscape without UIModalPresentationCustom, it rotates the view back to portrait, then presents the VC accordingly. Unfortunately, because I need the presenting VC to stay visible below, I am forced to use UIModalPresentationCustom. And when that happens, the presenting VC is forced into landscape mode, creating a messed up UI and generating constraint issues. And even when presenting in portrait, it becomes allowed to rotate into landscape, ignoring that shouldAutorotate returns NO.
PS: I found a workaround on iOS 7 by adding this method to my App Delegate, but it doesn't fix it on iOS 8.
#implementation UIViewController (customModalFix)
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
if ([self.presentedViewController isKindOfClass:[IntroViewController class]]) {
return [self.presentedViewController shouldAutorotate];
}
return YES;
}
#end
EDIT: Implementing supportedInterfaceOrientations on the presenting VC doesn't help at all, since it is only called when the view is loaded, not when a VC is about to be presented over it. Still haven't found a solution to this problem.
Maybe I'm late. The point is, when using UIModalPresentationCustom, the presenting VC will not disappear, and the presented VC is not considered to be presented full-screen (even if it does take up the full screen). Thus, it's the presenting VC that is consulted for the supported interface orientations. So the solution can be like:
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
if (self.presentedViewController) {
return [self.presentedViewController supportedInterfaceOrientations];
}
return [super supportedInterfaceOrientations];
}
If you only use UIModalPresentationCustom to keep the presenting VC visible below, say you need a clear colored VC, my answer here may work for you too:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/29167837/46940801

Setting orientation in iOS 7

I have th e following code in my uiviewcontroller.m file:
-(BOOL)shouldAutoRotate
{
return YES or NO;
}
I have tried both YES and NO but my view controller still rotates? I am using iOS 7 and the other iOS solutions I found aren't working for me either.
It probably happens because your controller instantiated as child of UINavigationController in view hierarchy. The UINavigationController does not query child controllers if they want to be rotated or not.
I had the same issue; I wanted to disable autorotation, so all hierarchy of particular UINavigationController is locked in Portrait. I ended with this class:
#implementation FixedOrientationNavigationController
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate {
return NO;
}
#end
which I put instead of UINavigationControllr class in Storyboard for hierarchies which I need to lock Portrait. Just this, I do not need to implement shouldAutorotate in each controller.
You may also check this link: Orientation Respectful UINavigationController, it tries to implement "orientation respectful" UINavigationController.
It works, but in some cases it leads to weird results, for example, when user rotate to Landscape and then go back to the controller which should only support Portrait.
You can also set the orientation by clicking on project name and then general ,here you can set the orientations you want and set
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate {
return NO;
}
Hope you got.

Display the master view controller of UISplitViewController in portrait and landscape mode for a specific view

I am trying to implement a hide/unhide feature for the master view controller of my UISplitViewController. So the master view controller should be present in portrait and landscape mode but just for a specific view (the settings). Everywhere else it should appear in landscape only.
In -(void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated of my MasterController I am writing
self.popoverController.delegate = self;
appDelegate.splitViewController.delegate= nil;
appDelegate.splitViewController.delegate = self;
[appDelegate.splitViewController willRotateToInterfaceOrientation:self.interfaceOrientation duration:0];
[appDelegate.splitViewController didRotateFromInterfaceOrientation:self.interfaceOrientation];
appDelegate.splitViewController.view setNeedsLayout];
The delegate method is also set
- (BOOL)splitViewController:(UISplitViewController *)svc shouldHideViewController:(UIViewController *)vc inOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)orientation
{
return NO;
}
This approach I found here on stackoverflow really works well, but just as long as I rotate the device. Then the master view controller disappears (and leaves a black space). While rotating it appears and as soon as the rotation is done it disappears again. Further the master view controller disappears complelty if I click outside.
So I implemented the following delegate method to prevent the popover from disappearing
- (BOOL)popoverControllerShouldDismissPopover:(UIPopoverController *)popoverController
{
return NO;
}
That works too, but then the tableView of my detail view is not responding.
If I delete the code from -(void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated and the UIPopoverControllerDelegate method, it works all as expected, but just after I rotate the device.
So my question is, if anyone has an idea how I can solve that problem. The solution should be able to work with iOS 5.0 and newer.
Thanks a lot for your answers!

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