Detecting rotation to landscape manually

Question

I am working on an iPhone application based on UITabBarController and UIViewControllers for each page. The app needs to run in portrait mode only, so every view controller +

Answer 1

I needed that in an old project - hope it still works...

1) Register a notification:

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

2) Then you can test against the rotation on change:

-(void) detectOrientation {
    if (([[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation] == UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeLeft) || 
        ([[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation] == UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeRight)) {
        [self doLandscapeThings];
    } else if ([[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation] == UIDeviceOrientationPortrait || [[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation] == UIDeviceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown) {
        [self doPortraitThings];
    }   
}

Hope that helps!