AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer with the ability to record in landscape mode with Quicktime

Question

So I currently have a camera app. I have it so it only works in portrait mode but you can still record videos and take photos in landscape mode fine. I use the following code to handle that:

videoConnection?.videoOrientation = self.orientation()

However, since the app does not register landscape mode itself you can not record the screen via quicktime in landscape (it stays portrait) (quicktime>file>record movie>choose device name)

Is there a way to fix this? I don't need to actually change the anything about the device to support landscape, I just want the ability to be able to record it that way in quicktime but nothing in the UI needs to be changed.

Answer 1

You can set call beginGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications for UIDevice and subscribe to UIDeviceOrientationDidChangeNotification. Afterward you can use orientation property of UIDevice in your code.

Reference Apple documentation for UIDevice class for details.