Detecting iOS UIDevice orientation

Question

I need to detect when the device is in portrait orientation so that I can fire off a special animation. But I do not want my view to autorotate.

How do I override a

Answer 1

In Swift 5.0.

DeviceOrientation vs. ScreenSize vs StatusBar.isLandscape?

If you want to detect changes of orientation in background, and also need to detect face up/down changes, check this link In Swift, how to get the device orientation correctly right after it's launched?

It covers how to correctly detect the orientation in Swift using 3 alternate ways to do it: - viewWillTransitionToSize() - Using Observer - Using the status bar