UITabBarController, MoreNavigationController and the Holy Grail of Device Rotation

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UPDATE: See my answer to this question first. This appears to be a bug. A minimal test case has been created and a report has been filed with Apple. (Fixed as of iPh

Answer 1

Apple advises against subclassing UITabBarController, so I found an easy way to handle autorotation using categories instead. It doesn't fix your bug with the More... view controllers, but I think it's a more Apple-friendly way of getting the job done (and means less subclassing for you).

To make every tab in my application autorotate properly, I've defined -shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: in my custom view controllers, but they are all inside UINavigationControllers within a UITabBarController, so the message won't get sent down the chain to my VC until those two also respond. So I added the following lines to my app delegate files:

Added to the bottom of MyAppDelegate.h

@interface UITabBarController (MyApp)
@end

@interface UINavigationController (MyApp)
@end

Added to the bottom of MyAppDelegate.m

@implementation UITabBarController (MyApp) 
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation {
    return YES;
}
@end

@implementation UINavigationController (MyApp) 
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation {
    return YES;
}
@end