I got this code that if the device is in landscape left/right or upside down it rotates and shows another view controller. but if it´s in the orientation face up or face down, then how can I tell if it´s in landscape mode or portrait? cause I only want to rotate if it´s face up or down and in landscape mode
- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
UIDeviceOrientation orientation = [[UIDevice currentDevice]orientation];
NSLog(@"orientation %d", orientation);
if ((orientation == 2) || (orientation == 3) || (orientation == 4))
{
[self performSegueWithIdentifier:@"DisplayLandscapeView" sender:self];
isShowingLandscapeView = YES;
}
}
In UI code you usually should not depend on the device orientation but the user interface orientation. There's often a difference between them, for example when a view controller only supports portrait.
The most important difference for your case is that the interface orientation is never face up/down.
In your case you can just ask the view controller for the current user interface orientation: self.interfaceOrientation
.
Your condition could be expressed somewhat like if (deviceOrientation is face up/down and interfaceOrientation is landscape)
Bear in mind that a device orientation landscape left means a user interface orientation landscape right.
The interfaceOrientation
property is deprecated since iOS 8.
And the helpers methods
UIDeviceOrientationIsPortrait(orientation)
UIDeviceOrientationIsLandscape(orientation)
won't help either, because they return false when orientation is .faceUp
.
So I ended checking this way:
extension UIViewController {
var isPortrait: Bool {
let orientation = UIDevice.current.orientation
switch orientation {
case .portrait, .portraitUpsideDown:
return true
case .landscapeLeft, .landscapeRight:
return false
default: // unknown or faceUp or faceDown
guard let window = self.view.window else { return false }
return window.frame.size.width < window.frame.size.height
}
}
}
This is in a UIViewController extension, so I can revert to comparing the screen width and height if everything else fails.
I use window
because if the current ViewController is embedded in a container, it may not reflect the global iPad orientation.
Yes you can, the UIDeviceOrientation
is an enum which contains:
UIDeviceOrientationUnknown,
UIDeviceOrientationPortrait,
UIDeviceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown,
UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeLeft,
UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeRight,
UIDeviceOrientationFaceUp,
UIDeviceOrientationFaceDown
There are even two helpers:
UIDeviceOrientationIsPortrait(orientation)
UIDeviceOrientationIsLandscape(orientation)
Just cmd on UIDeviceOrientation
to show the headerfile where the enum is declared.
There is one way to check it.
UIDeviceOrientation deviceOrientation = [[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation];
UIInterfaceOrientation statusBarOrientation =[UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarOrientation;
Use the first one to check if the device is in faceup and second one will tell you if the device is in portrait or landscape.