Disabling auto rotation for a UIView

Question

My application is composed of a toolbar and an AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer in a background UIView. I\'d like to see that toolbar rotate regarding the device orientation, so in my

Answer 1

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
  return NO;
}

Or were you saying to disable it only when a certain view is showing? If so, you can check for this using UIView's isDescendantOfView method.