UIDevice currentDevice's “orientation” always null

Question

As per the title. Calling [[UIDevice currentDevice] BeginGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications] has no effect.

DidRotateToInterfaceOrientation etc events are wor

Answer 1

this is as per iMeMyself said in the comments above - this samed me a lot of time and I think is the right answer so I wanted to highlight it here:

UIDeviceOrientation interfaceOrientation = [UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarOrientation;

if (UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(interfaceOrientation))
{
   //do stuff here
}
else if (UIInterfaceOrientationIsPortrait(interfaceOrientation))
{
//or do stuff here
}