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Neigaard
Neigaard

Reputation: 4050

Why is rotation not working for iOS 5 when it is working for iOS 6

I have a app that has 5.0 as deployment target and 6.1 as base sdk and it all works great on a iOS 6.x device/simulator. But on 5.x my views are not rotating. I have googled around and found some Stackoverflow post on this, but I cant quite find heads and tails in it all. I think I need to implement my own subclasses of the different view controllers I use, but which and am I right?

In my app delegate didFinishLaunchingWithOptions I use this to create my app:

self.tabBarController = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
self.tabBarController.viewControllers = @[viewController1, viewController2, viewController3];
self.window.rootViewController = self.tabBarController;
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];

I create my viewController1.. like this:

viewController1 = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:[[SearchVC alloc] initWithNibName:@"SearchVC_iPhone" bundle:nil]];

I have tried implementing shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation in my SearchVC_iPhone view controller and I have tried subclassing UINavigationController and implementing shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation in that subclass also but it is not working out for me and I am really just guessing here.

Please can anyone who knows this stuff help me out here, what do I need to do to get this working in iOS 5.x also?

Thank you
Søren

Upvotes: 1

Views: 747

Answers (3)

Neigaard
Neigaard

Reputation: 4050

I solved it!! The problem is the rootViewController, I have to implement shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation on the rootViewController and then all subviews starts behaving as they should. So I made my own UITabBarController subclass that implements shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation and set that as the rootViewController.

Upvotes: 1

URathore
URathore

Reputation: 5

I'm working on an application (Xcode 4.5 iOS 6), it must be compatible for the devices that have installed software version, starting at 4.5 and default iPhone 5.

I know that the new iOS 6 changes came with the auto-rotate mode.

When you turn on your device "iPhone Simulator 6.0" application behaves normally but when I run the "iPhone Simulator 5.0" problems in the way of rotation.

I put in the code, along with new ways to rotate from iOS 6 and the old method (deprecated) to iOS 5.

So look for the rotate methods:

#pragma mark - Rotate Methods iOS 5




- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: (UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation

{

if (UIInterfaceOrientationIsPortrait(interfaceOrientation))

{

    //Code Here

}


if (UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(interfaceOrientation))

{

    //Code Here

}

return YES;

}

#pragma mark - Rotate Methods iOS 6

  • (void)willRotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation duration:(NSTimeInterval)duration

    {

if (UIInterfaceOrientationIsPortrait(toInterfaceOrientation))

    {

        //Code here

    }

if (UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(toInterfaceOrientation))

    {

         //Code here

    }

}

Upvotes: 0

dhcdht
dhcdht

Reputation: 463

In IOS5 you may use

-(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation：(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation
{
    return YES;
}

In IOS6 you may use

-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
}

Upvotes: 2

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