Forcing an iPad app to show splitView even in Portrait orientation(Like the Settings iPad app)

Question

I am trying to develop a splitView based iPad app, that displays the split interface in every orientation. I have tried subclassing the UISplitViewController class as given in this tutorial, but it doesn't work. I tried creating a category to set _hidesMasterViewInPortrait = (hidden) ? 0 : 1;, as suggested in one of the comments in the above blog, but nothing worked.

Can anyone help me to find a way out of this, without using any third party frameworks or classes?

Answer 1

In iOS8 (Swift), use this:

splitViewController.preferredDisplayMode = UISplitViewControllerDisplayMode.AllVisible