Circular import issues in Objective C & Cocoa Touch

Question

I have a view controller in Cocoa Touch that detects when the device rotates and switches between the views of the 2 view controllers it has: landscape and portrait.

Answer 1

You can use forward declarations for classes and protocols in headers in most situations to avoid circular import issues, except in the case of inheritance. In FRRViewController.h, instead of importing FRRRotatingViewController.h, can you not make a forward declaration?

@class FRRRotatingViewController;