objective c - UITabBarController Rotation Issues in ios 6

Question

Ack! I had my tabbar rotation issues resolved finally in iOS 5, but iOS 6 and xcode seem to have broken things... here is what I have:

Target App Summary includes: Supported Interface Orientations - Portraint, Landscape Left, Landscape Right

Every Single View in the App has the following methods:

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
if ([[UIDevice currentDevice] userInterfaceIdiom] == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPhone) {
    return ((interfaceOrientation != UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown) &&
            (interfaceOrientation != UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft) &&
            (interfaceOrientation != UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight));
} else {
    return YES;
}
}

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
NSLog(@"am I called1?");
return NO;
}

-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations{
   NSLog(@"am I called?");
   return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}

In the views that are not part of the tab bar, rotation is blocked. In ALL the views of the tabbar (there are 5) the app never calls ShouldAutorotate and so rotates. It does seem supportedInterfaceOrientations gets called once when a view loads, but not when it appears if I switch between views, because I get the NSLog, but it seems to ignore the MaskPortrait setting.

I have to leave the landscape enabled in the target because I have a single video player view that needs to rotate (and it does so, fine)

Is this a tabbar bug in iOS 6? Do I need to disable the rotation of the views differently? The shouldautorotatetointerfaceorientation worked great in ios 5

I've been at it for a while

Thanks, Zack

Answer 1

Zack, I ran into this same issue. It's because you have your viewController embedded inside of a TabBar Controller or UINavigationController and the calls to these methods are happening inside those instead of your normal View (Changed in iOS6).

I ran into this issue because I was presenting a viewController embedded inside a UINavigationController on all my modal views that had Navigation to different views (Signup Process, Login, etc).

My simple fix was to create a CATEGORY for UINavigationController that includes these two methods. I have shouldAutorotate returning NO anyway because I don't want my modal views rotating. Your fix may be this simple, give it a try. Hope it helps.

I created a category and named it autoRotate and selected theUINavigationController option. The M+H file are below.

#import "UINavigationController+autoRotate.h"

@implementation UINavigationController (autoRotate)

-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate {
    return NO;
}

- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}

@end

... and the category .h:

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface UINavigationController (autoRotate)

-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate;
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations;

@end