hiding TabBar when rotating iPhone device to landscape

Question

So here is what i have: A UITabBarController that handles different UIViewControllers. In one of the UIViewController i am trying to switch the view being displayed when the

Answer 1

I needed tab bar to go into full screen mode in landscape view and I tried the approach suggested above using

transView.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 480, 320 );

This turned out to be a hacky solution and posed many problems such as with hiding and re-displaying the status bar (the view would overlap with the status bar when it is re-displayed after exiting portrait view). I would not recommend this. What worked for me perfectly in the end was pushing a new view controller containing the landscape view and using delegation to reuse the functionality of the original VC.