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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:49:24 +0000

[...] Joe Boudreaux has a great post today about one shortcoming of autorotation on the iPhone, which is when you try to use an application [...]

By: VB Dude

VB Dude — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:04:48 +0000

Thanks for the post -- it was quite informative. However, I would add a few extra steps if one was trying to include this functionality in their code:

1) Be sure to import your app delegate's header file in each view controller. For this example, it would be
#import "PillowTalkAppDelegate.h"

2) Also be sure to include the declaration of the shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation function in your app delegates .h file. For this example, it would be
- (BOOL) shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation;

By: VB Dude

VB Dude — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:04:48 +0000

By: Boarder2

Boarder2 — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:35:20 +0000

Please, please get the word out on this!
I wish it was a universal setting that you could just disable it for every app in the phone settings. Until then, developers really should consider implementing it. It’s so easy to do.

By: Adam French

Adam French — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:06:39 +0000

Amen. And I think the first and foremost app that should follow your lead is Safari. Secondly Mail, but mainly Safari.

By: iWyre

iWyre — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:18:56 +0000

[...] Autorotate or Not to Autorotate by admin on August 21st, 2009 Toby Joe Boudreaux has a great post today about one shortcoming of autorotation on the iPhone, which is when you try to use an application [...]

By: tobyjoe

tobyjoe — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:52:21 +0000

Yeah, Bill, that app does it very well. The example I provided is about the simplest you could ever do. Maybe it’s worth coming up with a standard pattern and control set for this.

By: ScottYelich

ScottYelich — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:51:56 +0000

I absolutely can not *stand* autorotate.
Second is “shake” .. shake to undo, shake to erase… shake to change. STOP IT.

If you have to do this sh!t, please at least give me an option to disable it. Those apps that already provided forced portrait/landscape — YAY. thank you.

Auto rotation sucks.

Scott
ps: Yes, I use my iphone lying down, in bed upside down, etc.

By: Bill Barbot

Bill Barbot — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:46:27 +0000

With you all the way. Amazon’s Kindle app for iPhone handles this very elegantly, and I use it often. Every time device orientation changes, a little unlocked padlock icon appears briefly in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. Tap the icon and it locks into the current orientation. Roll around as much as you want, and it ain’t going anywhere until you tap it again to make it unlocked. Slick, easy, intuitive, useful, and smartly aware of the incredibly common “I’m reading in bed and I might just roll over” use case.

By: Adam French

Adam French — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:33:13 +0000

Amen. And I think the first and foremost app that should follow your lead is Safari. Secondly Mail, but mainly Safari.