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

Question

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 rath

Answer 1

There's a way to achieve this whether the orientation lock is enabled or not by using data from CoreMotion. This is the code:

#import <CoreMotion/CoreMotion.h> 

    CMMotionManager *cm=[[CMMotionManager alloc] init];
    cm.deviceMotionUpdateInterval=0.2f;
    [cm startDeviceMotionUpdatesToQueue:[NSOperationQueue mainQueue]
                            withHandler:^(CMDeviceMotion *data, NSError *error) {

                            if(fabs(data.gravity.x)>fabs(data.gravity.y)){
                                    NSLog(@"LANSCAPE");
                                if(data.gravity.x>=0){
                                    NSLog(@"LEFT");
                                }
                                else{
                                    NSLog(@"RIGHT");
                                }

                        }
                        else{
                                NSLog(@"PORTRAIT");
                                if(data.gravity.y>=0){
                                    NSLog(@"DOWN");
                                }
                                else{

                                    NSLog(@"UP");
                                }

                            }

}];

Answer 2

In Swift 3.0

to get device orientation.

/* return current device orientation.
   This will return UIDeviceOrientationUnknown unless device orientation notifications are being generated. 
*/
UIDevice.current.orientation

to get device orientation from your app

UIApplication.shared.statusBarOrientation

Answer 3

And the best reliable way in swift :

public extension UIScreen {

    public class var isPortrait: Bool {
        UIApplication.shared.delegate?.window??.rootViewController?.interfaceOrientation.isPortrait ??
                UIApplication.shared.statusBarOrientation.isPortrait
    }

    public class var isLandscape: Bool { !isPortrait }
}

Answer 4

My current way of doing this:

+ (BOOL)isPortrait {
    let window = UIApplication.sharedApplication.delegate.window;
    if(window.rootViewController) {
        let orientation =
        window.rootViewController.interfaceOrientation;
        return UIInterfaceOrientationIsPortrait(orientation);
    } else {
        let orientation =
        UIApplication.sharedApplication.statusBarOrientation;
        return UIInterfaceOrientationIsPortrait(orientation);
    }
}

If there is for some reason no rootViewController yet fail safe to statusBarOrientation...

Answer 5

Here is some Swift variables to make detection easier:

let LANDSCAPE_RIGHT: Bool = UIDevice.currentDevice().orientation == UIDeviceOrientation.LandscapeRight
let LANDSCAPE_LEFT: Bool = UIDevice.currentDevice().orientation == UIDeviceOrientation.LandscapeLeft
let LANDSCAPE: Bool = LANDSCAPE_LEFT || LANDSCAPE_RIGHT
let PORTRAIT_NORMAL: Bool = UIDevice.currentDevice().orientation == UIDeviceOrientation.Portrait
let PORTRAIT_REVERSE: Bool = UIDevice.currentDevice().orientation == UIDeviceOrientation.PortraitUpsideDown
let PORTRAIT: Bool = PORTRAIT_REVERSE || PORTRAIT_NORMAL

Answer 6

Wasn't satisfied by "UIDeviceOrientation" because when a UIViewcontroller orientation is fixed to a specific orientation you don't get a pertinent information with the device orientation, so the right thing to do is using "UIInterfaceOrientation".

You can get the orientation from the UIViewController with a "self.interfaceOrientation", but when you are factorizing our code, you might need to do this kind of test outside a view controller, (custom view, a category…), so you still can access the information anywhere outside the controller by using the rootviewController:

if (UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(view.window.rootViewController.interfaceOrientation)) {
}