Status bar is Landscape, but [[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarOrientation] returns portrait

Question

This problem appears to be intermittent, but I am not sure why exactly. When running my application on the device (iPad), I have some code to load a scroll view with some im

Answer 1

If you are having this issue at launch time, you need to use UIDevice to get the device orientation, since statusBarOrientation will always be portrait until after application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:. The only caveat is that you need to enable device orientation notifications prior or asking UIDevice for the orientation.

    [[UIDevice currentDevice] beginGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications];
    UIDeviceOrientation deviceOrientation = [[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation];
    [[UIDevice currentDevice] endGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications];