Unwanted white background visible around UITableView when rotating from landscape to portrait

Question

I have a UITableView in an iPad application that I am working on. When I start in a portrait view and rotate to landscape, the view rotates and the rotation looks good.

However, when I rotate from landscape to portrait, there is a white edge that is displayed during the rotation. It appears as though the UITableView is resized to fit the portrait display at the beginning of the rotation. (When rotating TO landscape, resizing first means that no white will be seen.)

Through a few screenshots that I have been able to grab, it appears that the animation order is as follows:

1. Resize UITableView
2. Perform rotation animation
3. Resize UIToolbar

While researching this, I found some people suggesting to change the UIWindow's background color to match your view (blue in this case), but my real UITableView does not have a solid color background, so this method is not sufficient.

I would like to be able to control when the rotation of individual views occur so that I can prevent this white border from being visible during rotation. Or if there is a better approach, please share that too!

[Edit] Here's a rough screenshot showing the white border during rotation:

Answer 1

Try to set the background color of the window layer to [UIColor blackColor]