Child View Controller to Rotate While Parent View Controller Does Not

Question

What I am Trying to Do:

Parent View that is managed by Parent View Controller SHOULD NOT ROTATE.

Child View that i

Answer 1

From iOS developer library Technical Q&A

Autorotation is implemented by applying a rotation transform to the application's window when the system determines that the interface must rotate. The window then adjusts its bounds for the new orientation and propagates this change down through the view controller hierarchy via calls to each view controller's and presentation controller's -viewWillTransitionToSize:withTransitionCoordinator: method. Invocations of this method are provided a transition coordinator object containing the delta of the window's current transform and new transform, which can be retrieved by sending a -targetTransform message to the transition coordinator. Your view controller or presentation controller can derive the appropriate inverse transform and apply it to the target view. This nullifies the effect of the window transform on that particular view and gives the appearance that the view has remained fixed in its current orientation as the rest of the interface rotates normally.

i.e. if you have a view named noRotatingView

override func viewWillLayoutSubviews() {
    super.viewWillLayoutSubviews()

    noRotatingView.center = CGPointMake(CGRectGetMidX(self.view.bounds), CGRectGetMidY(self.view.bounds))
}

override func viewWillTransitionToSize(size: CGSize, withTransitionCoordinator coordinator: UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinator) {
    super.viewWillTransitionToSize(size, withTransitionCoordinator: coordinator)

    coordinator.animateAlongsideTransition({ (UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinatorContext) -> Void in

        let deltaTransform = coordinator.targetTransform()
        let deltaAngle = atan2f(Float(deltaTransform.b), Float(deltaTransform.a))

        var currentRotation = self.noRotatingView.layer.valueForKeyPath("transform.rotation.z")?.floatValue

        // Adding a small value to the rotation angle forces the animation to occur in a the desired direction, preventing an issue where the view would appear to rotate 2PI radians during a rotation from LandscapeRight -> LandscapeLeft.
        currentRotation = currentRotation! + (-1 * Float(deltaAngle)) + 0.0001
        self.noRotatingView.layer.setValue(currentRotation, forKeyPath:"transform.rotation.z")

        }) { (UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinatorContext) -> Void in

            var currentTransform = self.noRotatingView.transform;
            currentTransform.a = round(currentTransform.a);
            currentTransform.b = round(currentTransform.b);
            currentTransform.c = round(currentTransform.c);
            currentTransform.d = round(currentTransform.d);
            self.noRotatingView.transform = currentTransform;
    }
}

I've tried to make a demo project at https://github.com/rishi420/TestCameraRotation