Determining the Orientation of the screen rather than the orientation of the device

Question

The [[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation] method returns a number of orientations beyond the portrait and landscape orientation. I am well aware of checking to se

Answer 1

Have you tried using UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait/UIInterfaceOrientationLandscape? I usually have pretty good results using these methods:

if(UIInterfaceOrientationIsPortrait(viewController.interfaceOrientation)) {
    //do portrait work
} else if(UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(viewController.interfaceOrientation)){
    //do landscape work
}

You might also try UIDeviceOrientationIsValidInterfaceOrientation.

These will only return the app's orientation, which may not be the same as the device's orientation.

If those don't work, you can also try:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarOrientation]