Rotation should be possible even with locked statusBar orientation

[stigi]

Currently the rotation is based on -[UIApplication statusBarOrientation]. In our setup we want to show a movie player view that only supports LandscapeLeft and LandscapeRight, but the interface of the main app is Portrait only. Therefore the statusBarOrientation can and will never change, and therefore no rotation is triggered.

You think it would be okay to rely on -[UIDevice orientation] for the rotation?

[hfossli]

We are doing that too. But we are not having two landscapeorientations. Just one. Similar to youtube..

I recommend using only one orientation at a time. And of course you could set one orientation at a time based on -[UIDevice orientation]

[stigi]

Fancy having a look at my branch: https://github.com/nxtbgthng/AGWindowView/tree/device-rotation ?

See the homer in the second tab of the demo project.
The only problem is, that the background view still is visible during the rotation animation.

[hfossli]

I think it would be a lot cleaner if you had a seperate class responsible for telling which orientation should be used and when. Could be called AGWindowViewOrientationManager

[hfossli]

And then you could on the AGWindowView set a default manager. That way it is easy for everybody to implement their own system for having orientations..