As per the title.
Calling [[UIDevice currentDevice] BeginGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications] has no effect.
DidRotateToInterfaceOrientation etc events are working fine, but I need to be able to poll the device orientation arbitrarily.
How can I fix/do this?
The long story:
I have a tab application with a navigation controller on each tab. The root view of tab number one is a graph that goes full screen when the orientation changes to landscape; however this needs to be checked whenever the view appears as the orientation change could have occurred elsewhere, so I was hoping to poll the orientation state whenever this view appears.
UIDevice's notion of orientation seems to be only available on actual devices. The simulator seems to always return 0 here, regardless of whether the notifications have been enabled as the docs suggest. Irritatingly inconvenient, but there you go.
I find this works fine on the actual device:
[[UIDevice currentDevice] beginGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications];
NSLog(@"orientation: %d", [[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation]);
[[UIDevice currentDevice] endGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications];
seems like a silly question, but isn't it
beginGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications
( lower case b )
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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
}
If you check [[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation]
in - (void)viewDidLoad
you will always get nil.
Check it in *- (void) viewDidAppear:(BOOL)
*animated method and you
Wouldn't [[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation] give you the current orientation state? You could check for this in your viewWillAppear method of the view controller that wants to poll.
Edit: Other than that, there are various ways to get the current orientation, such as using the statusBarOrientation property in UIApplication, or interfaceOrientation property in UIViewcontroller.