My apps use code to put objects on the screen and the layout of my apps changes depending on the orientation of the device. I had been using statusBarOrientation to determine the orientation, but it as been deprecated as of iOS 9. It still works in iOS 11 but since I have to update my apps anyway for iPhone X, I decided that now would be as good a time as any to update the code.<\/p>\n
I believe the reason for the deprecation is that now apps can appear in a sidebar, so they don\u2019t have a status bar. I have not enabled that behaviour in my apps, so it doesn\u2019t affect me. The recommended way to get the orientation is to look at the screen size.<\/p>\n
I had been using this line at the top of each file where I needed to do something depending on orientation.<\/p>\n
\n UIInterfaceOrientation orientation = [UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarOrientation;\n<\/code><\/pre><\/p>\nI use a utilities class for things that I use across classes, so I decided to put it there so I could change it easily if I needed to at some point in the future.<\/p>\n
\n+ (NSString *) orientation {\n\n CGSize screenSize = [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size;\n NSString *deviceOrientation = @"Portrait";\n if (screenSize.height < screenSize.width) {\n deviceOrientation = @"Landscape";\n }\n return deviceOrientation;\n}\n<\/code><\/pre><\/p>\nThe replacement code in each class is:
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\nNSString *orientation = [Utilities orientation];\n<\/code><\/pre><\/p>\nThe enum UIInterfaceOrientation has not been deprecated, so I could have returned one of the values and not had to change any other code, but the conditionals are messy and hard to read, <\/p>\n
\nif (orientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait || orientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown)\n<\/code><\/pre><\/p>\nso I decided to return a string instead to make the code easier to read, e.g.
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