Interface orientation in iOS 6.0

Question

How to use the following methods to support interface orientation in iOS 6.0:

shouldAutorotate

supportedInterfaceOrientations

preferredInterfaceOrientation         


        

Answer 1

My app has an instance of a custom UINavigationController subclass, that presents several view controllers, all in portrait only, except when playing a video, in which case I want to additionally allow both landscape orientations.

Based on @uerceg 's answer, this is my code.

First, I enabled Portrait, Landscape Left and Landscape right in Xcode -> Target -> Summary.

In the UINavigationController subclass's implementation, I #import'ed .

Then I implemented these methods:

// Autorotation (iOS <= 5.x)

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
    if ([self modalViewController] && [[self modalViewController] isKindOfClass:[MPMoviePlayerController class]]) {

        // Playing Video: Anything but 'Portrait (Upside down)' is OK
        return (interfaceOrientation != UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown);
    }
    else{
        // NOT Playing Video: Only 'Portrait' is OK
        return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
    }
}


// Autorotation (iOS >= 6.0)

- (BOOL) shouldAutorotate
{
    return YES;
}


-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
    NSUInteger orientations = UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;

    if ([self modalViewController] && [[self modalViewController] isKindOfClass:[MPMoviePlayerController class]]) {

        // Playing Video, additionally allow both landscape orientations:

        orientations |= UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscapeLeft;
        orientations |= UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscapeRight;

    }

    return orientations;
}