Swift - How to Detect Orientation Changes

Swift - How to detect orientation changes

let const = "Background" //image name
let const2 = "GreyBackground" // image name
    @IBOutlet weak var imageView: UIImageView!
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        imageView.image = UIImage(named: const)
        // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
    }

    override func viewWillTransition(to size: CGSize, with coordinator: UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinator) {
        super.viewWillTransition(to: size, with: coordinator)
        if UIDevice.current.orientation.isLandscape {
            print("Landscape")
            imageView.image = UIImage(named: const2)
        } else {
            print("Portrait")
            imageView.image = UIImage(named: const)
        }
    }

How to detect orientation change?

Here's how I got it working:

In AppDelegate.swift inside the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions function I put:

NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(AppDelegate.rotated), name: UIDevice.orientationDidChangeNotification, object: nil)

and then inside the AppDelegate class I put the following function:

func rotated() {
    if UIDeviceOrientationIsLandscape(UIDevice.current.orientation) {
        print("Landscape")
    }

    if UIDeviceOrientationIsPortrait(UIDevice.current.orientation) {
        print("Portrait")
    }
}

Hope this helps anyone else!

Thanks!

How to update the UI when the device orientation changed in Swift?

Actually by using

loginView.frame = CGRect(origin: .zero, size: view.bounds.size)

you assign a frame to your login view which will not change on device rotation.

you might wanna use a constraint approach here as well:

// try replacing
// loginView.frame = CGRect(origin: .zero, size: view.bounds.size)

// with
 loginView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
 NSLayoutConstraint.activate([
    loginView.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.leadingAnchor),
    loginView.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.trailingAnchor),
    loginView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.topAnchor),
    loginView.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.bottomAnchor)
 ])

Another approach would be updating the frame of your login view e.g.

override func traitCollectionDidChange(_ previousTraitCollection: UITraitCollection?) {
   super.traitCollectionDidChange(previousTraitCollection)
   loginView.frame = CGRect(origin: .zero, size: view.bounds.size)
}

Last but not least you can use autoresizingMask in viewDidLoad

loginView.frame = CGRect(origin: .zero, size: view.bounds.size)
loginView.autoresizingMask = [.flexibleHeight, .flexibleWidth]

P.S. My previous comment was misleading since the login frame wasn't set in the setupStackView() function

and my final comment:

// you can replace
loginView.frame = CGRect(origin: .zero, size: view.bounds.size)
// with
loginView.frame = view.bounds

Detect iOS device orientation change without rotating view

I think you can subscribe to a notification

final class ViewController {
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad() 
        NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, #selector(handleOrientationChange, name: UIDevice.orientationDidChangeNotification, object: nil))
    }
    
    deinit {
        NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(self)
    }

    @objc
    private func handleOrientationChange() {
        // Yay, orientation changed!
    }
}

Swift Detect Every Time Device Orientation Changes

You may want to look into constraints so that your game looks good in both portrait and landscape if that is what you are wanting to support. You could set your constraints in storyboard then press vary for traits and choose the landscape option to set your new constraints for landscape.

Else, if you really needed to check orientation changes you could try:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()        

    NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(ViewController.rotated), name: UIDevice.orientationDidChangeNotification, object: nil)
}

deinit {
   NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(self, name: UIDevice.orientationDidChangeNotification, object: nil)         
}

func rotated() {
    if UIDevice.current.orientation.isLandscape {
        print("Landscape")
    } else {
        print("Portrait")
    }
}

Source

iOS Swift 5 Change device orientation manually

One simple way to accomplish this is by setting your supported orientation on the AppDelegate (_:supportedInterfaceOrientationsFor:)

Create a local variable there

var orientation: UIInterfaceOrientationMask = .portrait

and then return that variable as supported orientation

    func application(_ application: UIApplication, supportedInterfaceOrientationsFor window: UIWindow?) -> UIInterfaceOrientationMask {
        return orientation
    }

on the ViewController that you want to rotate with a touch of a button, you can change the supported orientation on the app delegate and than force the device orientation to change so that the view is rotated

    private func changeSupportedOrientation() {
        let delegate = UIApplication.shared.delegate as! AppDelegate
        switch delegate.orientation {
        case .portrait:
            delegate.orientation = .landscapeLeft
        default:
            delegate.orientation = .portrait
        }
    }

    @IBAction func rotateButtonTapped(_ sender: UIButton) {
        changeSupportedOrientation()
        switch UIDevice.current.orientation {
        case .landscapeLeft:
            UIDevice.current.setValue(UIDeviceOrientation.portrait.rawValue, forKey: "orientation")
        default:
            UIDevice.current.setValue(UIDeviceOrientation.landscapeLeft.rawValue, forKey: "orientation")
        }
    }

this will force the orientation of the device to change and then rotate your view. If you tap on the button again the orientation will be back to .portrait

Please be careful of using this as you need to really consider your navigation stack to make sure that only the top of the navigation stack support rotation and can only be pop from the navigation stack after the orientation is set back to the original which is .portrait only.

How to check Device Orientation Change From Portrait To Landscape and Vice-Versa in iPad

From iOS 8.0 You can detect the orientation change using below method.

In objective-c

- (void)viewWillTransitionToSize:(CGSize)size withTransitionCoordinator:(id<UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinator>)coordinator

in swift

func viewWillTransitionToSize(_ size: CGSize,
    withTransitionCoordinator coordinator: UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinator)

from the size you can find out.

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