UIImagePickerViewController in landscape mode

Question

I am working on app which is totally in Landscape mode. On one of the view, I need to open the camera(UIImagePickerController) with overlay view. But When I click the button to open camera it get crashed with this issue i.e. reason:

'Supported orientations has no common orientation with the application, and shouldAutorotate is returning YES'

I also put this line in viewcontroller but no effect.

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

Please give me some idea to make it working.

Answer 1

If you are using a UINavigationController as base view controller , that code snippet you provided simply doesn't work. Because you are adding that code to a UIViewController but it's already embeded in a UINavigationController.

To overcome this issue, you must create a subclass of UINavigationController and add that landscape related code to that subclass. Then assign this subclass to your Storyboard's base Navigation Controller. Then this issue will be solved.

This is your navigation controller sub class' .h file

@interface YourCustomNavigationController : UINavigationController
@end

And add this to your navigation controller subclass' .m file

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
    //returns true if want to allow orientation change
    return YES ;  
}
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscapeLeft;
}

- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation
{
    return UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft;
}

And make sure to assign this class to your base Navigation controller using interface builder's identity inspector.

Project settings,

EDIT:

You can present a UIImagePickerController in landscape mode. Regardless of what documentation says, you can actually subclass it and can override it's functionality to work on landscape mode. (atleast its working on iOS 7)

To do this, you must create a subclass of UIImagePickerController and add above lines to that subclass. Project settings must be same as screenshot (atleast one landscape mode and one portrait mode must be ticked).

Then use that subclassed ImagePicker controller when you presenting the camera. It would successfully load camera in landscape mode. But standard camera controls will be misaligned and messed up. So better to hide defaultControlls (picker.showsCameraControls = NO;) just like you've done and use an overlay view instead.