UIView doesn't resize to full screen when hiding the nav bar & tab bar

Question

I have an app that has a tab bar & nav bar for normal interaction. One of my screens is a large portion of text, so I allow the user to tap to go full screen (sort of l

Answer 1

I would move the view to the window when you choose to go fullscreen. e.g.

myView = [self.view retain];
self.view = nil;
[window addSubview:myView];

and to go back:

[myView removeFromSuperView];
self.view = myView;
[myView release];
myView = nil;

By adding the view as a child of the window, it can be totally fullscreen and will be on top of the tab bar.

You can then combine this with

[[UIDevice currentDevice] beginGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(didRotate:) name:@"UIDeviceOrientationDidChangeNotification" object:nil];

to detect rotation. (I think that you combine this with view.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation to make it rotate...?)