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How Do I detect the orientation of the device on iOS?

Asked 2011-04-05T23:12:13.573
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I have a question on how to detect the device orientation on iOS. I don't need to receive change notifications, just the current orientation itself. This seems to be a rather simple question, but I haven't been able to wrap my head around it. Below is what I have done so far:

UIDevice *myDevice = [UIDevice currentDevice] ;
[myDevice beginGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications];
UIDeviceOrientation deviceOrientation = myDevice.orientation;
BOOL isCurrentlyLandscapeView = UIDeviceOrientationIsLandscape(deviceOrientation);
[myDevice endGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications];

In my mind this should work. I enable the device to receive device orientation notices, then ask for what orientation it is in, but then it is not working and I don't know why.

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if UIViewController:

if (UIDeviceOrientationIsLandscape(self.interfaceOrientation))
{
    // 
}

if UIView:

if (UIDeviceOrientationIsLandscape([UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarOrientation))
{
    //
}

UIDevice.h:

#define UIDeviceOrientationIsPortrait(orientation)  ((orientation) == UIDeviceOrientationPortrait || (orientation) == UIDeviceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown)
#define UIDeviceOrientationIsLandscape(orientation) ((orientation) == UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeLeft || (orientation) == UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeRight)

Updated:

add this code to xxx-Prefix.pch then you can use it anywhere:

// check device orientation
#define dDeviceOrientation [[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation]
#define isPortrait  UIDeviceOrientationIsPortrait(dDeviceOrientation)
#define isLandscape UIDeviceOrientationIsLandscape(dDeviceOrientation)
#define isFaceUp    dDeviceOrientation == UIDeviceOrientationFaceUp   ? YES : NO
#define isFaceDown  dDeviceOrientation == UIDeviceOrientationFaceDown ? YES : NO

usage:

if (isLandscape) { NSLog(@"Landscape"); }
answered 2012-12-12T09:49:51.613

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