How can you disable the iOS Notification Center within your App?

Question

If you have a full screen iOS app and you want to prevent the notification center from being pulled down, can you and how?

Also can you block notification alerts or

Answer 1

I just now figured this out. I am developing a game that runs in landscape and whenever I touched the left side, the notification center tab would appear. To fix this, you want to add the following:

setStatusBarOrientation:UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft

I added this right after I setStatusBarHidden and I no longer have the problem of the notification tab.

Hope that helps.