UIDeviceOrientationUnknown in landscape mode

Question

I am trying to figure out what orientation the iphone has in the simulator and instead of giving it to me using the UIDevice orientation property I just get UIDeviceOrientationUnknown.

Does this property not work in the simulator? What could be the possible reason for this happening?

I am using opengl es

Answer 1

You can also use:

UIInterfaceOrientation orientation = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarOrientation];  

which works even without calling beginGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications.