How to maintain presenting view controller's orientation when dismissing modal view controller?

Question

I have this app I am working on and I need ALL my view controllers but one to be in portrait. The single one view controller that is special I need it to be able to rotate t

Answer 1

I'm having the same issue with an app and after days of experimentation I came up with a solution which is not very nice but it works for now. I'm using the delegate method application:supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow: within the appdelegate.

I created a test project and put it here on github (including a GIF which shows the result...)

// note: it's not in swift but I hope it helps anyways