Getting device orientation in Swift

Question

I was wondering how I can get the current device orientation in Swift? I know there are examples for Objective-C, however I haven\'t been able to get it working in Swift.

Answer 1

I had issues with using InterfaceOrientation, it worked OK except it wasn't accessing the orientation on loading. So I tried this and it's a keeper. This works because the bounds.width is always in reference to the current orientation as opposed to nativeBounds.width which is absolute.

    if UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.height > UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.width {
        // do your portrait stuff
    } else {    // in landscape
        // do your landscape stuff
    }

I call this from willRotateToInterfaceOrientation(toInterfaceOrientation: UIInterfaceOrientation, duration: NSTimeInterval) and from viewDidLoad but it flexible.

Thanks to zSprawl for the pointer in that direction. I should point out that this is only good for iOS 8 and later.