Difficulty with apps with a forced landscape orientation

Answer 1

A proper answer will depend on knowing how you are forcing landscape orientation. If you are doing this through UIViewController and company, it should be relatively simple; for other methods probably more complex.

In the simple case, you should be able to override shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: on your view controller, setup your views in Interface Builder, and set the UIInterfaceOrientation key to UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight in your Info.plist and be set.

Answer 2

I think you want to use landscape mode in each single view in your app. And you want the nib to be landscape mode too. You can resize the view to (0,0,480,300 for statusbar, 320 for non-statusbar) in nib. And design what you want. Finally, in view controller return no for autorotate. And finally transform the view and rotate.

Answer 3

Hi look here: strange.bplaced.net

Answer 4

I had a similar problem, asked the question on SO, and then figured it out and answered it myself. You may want to check it out.