UINavigationController and autorotation

Question

I have a UIViewController that returns YES in shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: for UIDeviceOrientationPortrait and NO

Answer 1

I found a nice workaround for this problem. The clue is to support all orientations for all views in UINavigationController.

I've got 2 views in controller. Root view is to support only LandscapeRight, and second supports both LandscapeRight and Portrait.

Second view shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation method looks as usual:

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
    return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight) ||
           (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}

The workaround itself is contained in Root view source Now the root view rotates in terms of code, but the user cant see it.

//auxiliary function
-(void) fixOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)orientation
{
    if (orientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait)
        self.view.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(M_PI_2);
    else if (orientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight)
        self.view.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(0);
}

-(void) viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [self fixOrientation:[[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarOrientation]];
}

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
    [self fixOrientation:interfaceOrientation];
    //notice, that both orientations are accepted
    return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight) ||
           (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}

//these two functions helps to avoid blinking
- (void)willRotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation duration:(NSTimeInterval)duration
{
    [UIView setAnimationsEnabled:NO]; // disable animations temporarily

}

- (void)didRotateFromInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)fromInterfaceOrientation
{
    [UIView setAnimationsEnabled:YES]; // rotation finished, re-enable them
}