Handling autorotation for one view controller in iOS7

Question

I\'ve read many answers on SO but I can\'t seem to get autorotation working on iOS7.

I only need one view controller to rotate, so I don\'t want to set rotation sett

Answer 1

In my case, I had a new iOS7 app with about 30 view controllers created already. I needed auto rotation on just a single modal view controller. I didn't want to have to update the preexisting view controllers.

I selected the orientations I wanted in the plist:

Then I added a category to my app delegate on UIViewController:

@implementation UIViewController (rotate)
   -(BOOL)shouldAutorotate {
      return NO;
   }
@end

Then in the single modal view controller I WANTED to rotate I added this method:

-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate {
      return YES;
}

I also discovered, that if my view controller wasn't a modal VC I would need to add category methods on UINavigationController instead, for all VCs that were subsequent to the root view controller, as part of the navigation stack of view controllers - similar to this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20283331/396429