force landscape ios 7

Question

I've tried to following methods to force landscape on one my views:

- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape;
}

- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation {
    return UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft;
}

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate{
    return YES;
}

Neither did work. Note that I'm testing on the simulator and on an iPad.

Thanks

Answer 1

Here is how I forced one of my views to be Landscape using NavigationViewController:

1. Implemented this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12662433/2394787

2. Imported message in the View controller: objc/message.h

3. Added this line of code in the viewDidLoad method:

objc_msgSend([UIDevice currentDevice], @selector(setOrientation:), UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft);

Hope it helps someone.

Answer 2

The accepted answer doesn't seem to work on iOS 7.1.2. (It works on the simulator but does not work while running on a device.)

This seems to work though:

[[UIDevice currentDevice] setValue:[NSNumber numberWithInteger:UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait] forKey:@"orientation"];

[[UIDevice currentDevice] setValue:[NSNumber numberWithInteger:UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft] forKey:@"orientation"];

Answer 3

int shouldShowInLandscape = 0;

-(BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {


    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                             selector:@selector(forceToLandscape:)
                                                 name:@"yourNameNotification"
                                               object:nil];

}

-(NSUInteger)application:(UIApplication *)application supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow:(UIWindow *)window
{

    if (UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad)
    {
              return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscapeLeft;
    } else {
            if(shouldShowInLandscape)
            {
                return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape;
            }
            return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
    }
}

-(void) forceToLandscape:(NSNotification*) theNot
{
    shouldShowInLandscape = [[theNot object] intValue];

}

// from the UIViewController

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter]
     postNotificationName:@"yourNameNotification"
     object:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"1"]];
}

-(void) viewDidDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{

        [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter]
     postNotificationName:@"yourNameNotification"
     object:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"0"]]; 

}

// remove you notificationCenter