iOS: Device orientation on load

Question

It seems that when my app loads, it does not know its current orientation:

UIInterfaceOrientation orientation = [[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation];
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Answer 1

Everyone above posted very valid answers : but as an UPDATE: Apple's take : you should e using UIStatusBar orientations to read current orientation of the device:

One way you could check the current orientation of the device is by using an int values as such, inside the viewDidLoad method :

    int orientationType = [[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation];

where consider the following . . . - 1 = portrait (right way up) - 2 = portrait upside down - 3 = landscape (right) - 4 = landscape (left)

and then you could use an IF statement to call a method after orientation is detected, so on and so forth:

Hope this was slightly helpful to someone