[iPhone] Disabling auto rotation for a UIView

Question

Hi !

My application is composed of a toolbar and an AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer in a background UIView. I'd like to see that toolbar rotate regarding the device orientation, so in my main ViewController, I implemented the function :

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
    return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait
            || interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft
            || interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight);
}

This works fine, but when the interface orientation is changed, I see that the background UIView (with a video layer) is also rotating, so my video view is now playing 90 degrees left or right... Which is not really cool !
So my question is : is there any way to disable the auto-rotation animation on a specific UIView ?

I have seen one similar question to this one : Disabling autorotate for a single UIView, but the answers doesn't fit my problem, I really need the background view to do not move, not to get around the problem with a kind of "counter animation". So I decided to bring up this topic.

Any ideas ?

Thanks !

Answer 1

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
  return NO;
}

Or were you saying to disable it only when a certain view is showing? If so, you can check for this using UIView's isDescendantOfView method.

Answer 2

Try this:

myVideoCaptureLayer.orientationSupported = NO;