How to force or disable interface orientation for some but not all UIViewController?

Question

I have an app with 9-10 screens. I embedded a UINavigationController into my view controller. I have few view controllers which I want set only portrait orientation: it means that rotating the device should not rotate these view controllers to landscape mode. I have tried the following solutions:

first:

   NSNumber *value = [NSNumber numberWithInt:UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait];
   [[UIDevice currentDevice] setValue:value forKey:@"orientation"];

but screen still rotates to landscape.

Second: I created a custom view controller class as PortraitViewController and added the code below in PortraitViewController.m

@interface PortraitViewController ()
@end

@implementation PortraitViewController
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
    return YES;
}

- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
    //Here check class name and then return type of orientation
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
@end

After that I implemented PortraitViewController.h as a base class

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import "PortraitViewController.h"
@interface Login : PortraitViewController
@end

It does not work at all, still allows view controller to rotate in landscape mode.

Is there any other solution i am using iOS 8 & don't want viewcontroller to rotate in landscape mode?

EDIT: Is it possible to have Landscape orientation only for some view controllers, and force other view controllers orientation to stick to Portrait?

Answer 1

Create a category on the UINavigationController and override supportedInterfaceOrientations

#import "UINavigationController+Orientation.h"

 @implementation UINavigationController (Orientation)

-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
   return [self.topViewController supportedInterfaceOrientations];
}

-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate
 {
    return YES;
 }

@end  

When you Embedded UINavigationController, Containers don't ask their children whether to rotate or not

Answer 2

Try to subclass the UINavigationController you are using because the default UINavigationController is not forwarding the shouldAutorotate method to you viewcontroller.

Implement the following method in your UINavigationController subclass

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
    return [self.visibleViewController shouldAutorotate];
}

Now the UINavigationController forwards the method call to its current visible UIViewController so you need to implement shouldAutorotate there individually to get your desired effect.