Setting device orientation in Swift iOS

rocket101 picture rocket101 · Sep 3, 2014 · Viewed 108.9k times · Source

I am working on a swift app for iPhone. There is a modal view in my application that I want only to be in portrait view.

My question is, how do I programmatically force the phone to not allow rotation? In other words, I am looking for code that will not allow a modal view to be displayed in landscape mode (turning on portrait rotation lock).

This is just for 1 modal view, so I can't turn off rotation for the entire app, otherwise I would just disable rotation altogether.

I found code in my research here But it is in objective C, in case that helps. Thanks!

Answer

YannSteph picture YannSteph · Dec 25, 2014

Hi for LandscapeLeft and LandscapeRight (Update Swift 2.0)

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And UIController

override func shouldAutorotate() -> Bool {
    return true
}

override func supportedInterfaceOrientations() -> UIInterfaceOrientationMask {
    return [UIInterfaceOrientationMask.LandscapeLeft,UIInterfaceOrientationMask.LandscapeRight]
}

For PortraitUpsideDown and Portrait use that enter image description here

override func shouldAutorotate() -> Bool {
    if (UIDevice.currentDevice().orientation == UIDeviceOrientation.LandscapeLeft ||
        UIDevice.currentDevice().orientation == UIDeviceOrientation.LandscapeRight ||
        UIDevice.currentDevice().orientation == UIDeviceOrientation.Unknown) {
            return false
    }
    else {
        return true
    }
}

override func supportedInterfaceOrientations() -> UIInterfaceOrientationMask {
    return [UIInterfaceOrientationMask.Portrait ,UIInterfaceOrientationMask.PortraitUpsideDown]
}

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Edit :

Other solution :

extension UINavigationController {
    public override func shouldAutorotate() -> Bool {
        if visibleViewController is MyViewController {
            return true   // rotation
        } else {
            return false  // no rotation
        }
    }

    public override func supportedInterfaceOrientations() -> UIInterfaceOrientationMask {
        return (visibleViewController?.supportedInterfaceOrientations())!
    }
}