ImagePickerController should open in landscape mode

Question

UIImagePickerController should open in landscape? I tried using category but it is not working. how to fix orientation to a UIImagePickerController ?

Answer 1

You should use UIPopoverController to display ImagePickerController in Landscape mode

-(void)showImagePicker:(id)sender
    {
        UIButton *button = (UIButton *)sender; // button is on which user will tap to show image picker
        UIImagePickerController *imgPicker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
        imgPicker.delegate = self;
        imgPicker.allowsEditing = YES;
        imgPicker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary;

        self.popover = [[UIPopoverController alloc] initWithContentViewController:imgPicker];
        [self.popover presentPopoverFromRect:button.frame inView:self.view permittedArrowDirections:UIPopoverArrowDirectionAny animated:YES];
    }

Answer 2

The UIImagePickerController class supports portrait mode only. This class is intended to be used as-is and does not support subclassing.

Answer 3

It's easy. Try to create a custom class of UIImagePickerController. Override supportedInterfaceOrientations method in it:

- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations{
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape;
}

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate{
    return YES;
}