iOS 6 - (BOOL)shouldAutorotate not getting called for navigation controllers pushed viewControllers

Question

For my app rootViewController is navgationController.

I found that pushed controller\'s

-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate is not

Answer 1

I also faced the same issue with the navigation controller. It works fine in the case of all the pushed view controllers, but my scenario was quite different I had one viewcontroller pushed in to the navigation controller (ViewControllerParent) as the root,

NavController
            -- rootViewController (ViewControllerParent)
                                          --- ViewControllerChild1
                                          --- ViewControllerChild2

Due to some project requirement, I was keeping the ViewControllerParent as base, and then I was adding Child viewcontroller's view as subviews to the parent based on user actions. Now I had a scenario where I wanted Child1 not to rotate and Child2 to have rotation.

The problem I faced was that my [self.topViewController] in the Navigation controller class always returns me the Parent Object since I am not pushing the Childs into the nav stack. So my shouldAutorotate methods in my Childs will never be called. So I had to put a class check in the shouldAutorotate method of my parent and then return the rotation value. I did something like this in parent class (ViewControllerParent),it is a kind of workaround but it fixed the issue

-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
  BOOL allowRotation = YES;

   if ([currentlyLoadedChild isKindOfClass:[Child1 class]])
   {
       allowRotation = NO;
   }
   if ([currentlyLoadedChild isKindOfClass:[Child2 class]])
   {
       allowRotation = YES;
   }
   return allowRotation;
} 

-anoop