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Using interfaceOrientation with iOS8 transitions

April 27th, 2015 · ∞ · objc, uikit

Working on an app last week, I needed a way to respond to rotation events in a view controller. Since iOS8, the rotation APIs in UIViewController are deprecated:

- (void)willRotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation duration:(NSTimeInterval)duration NS_DEPRECATED_IOS(2_0,8_0, "Implement viewWillTransitionToSize:withTransitionCoordinator: instead");
- (void)didRotateFromInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)fromInterfaceOrientation NS_DEPRECATED_IOS(2_0,8_0);

- (void)willAnimateRotationToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation duration:(NSTimeInterval)duration NS_DEPRECATED_IOS(3_0,8_0, "Implement viewWillTransitionToSize:withTransitionCoordinator: instead");

As you can see, they want you to use viewWillTransitionToSize:withTransitionCoordinator: instead. So, no problem, we'll just implement that method.

Update: I'd like to stress this a little more: the reason they've changed these behaviors is for a reason. Your app mostly likely is way better off using adaptive layout using size classes, Auto Layout and manual corrections using the new transition callbacks.

Now, the only thing is: what if you need to know those "toInterfaceOrientation" or "fromInterfaceOrientation" value from the old APIs?