Detect iOS device orientation change without rotating view-CodePudding

I have a UIViewController and I wanna detect the device orientation changes on that ViewController. But I do not want to rotate the view. My app supports all orientations but this ViewController should keep portrait mode all the time.

I can set supportedInterfaceOrientations to portrait only to get the desired functionality. But I still wanna know the orientation changes within this ViewController. Normally I can get the event with the viewWillTransition method or traitCollectionDidChange method. But when I set supportedInterfaceOrientations to portrait none of those methods get called.

    override var supportedInterfaceOrientations: UIInterfaceOrientationMask {
        return .portrait
    }

    // this method never get called
    override func viewWillTransition(to size: CGSize, with coordinator: UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinator) {
        super.viewWillTransition(to: size, with: coordinator)
    }

Is there a way to detect the device orientation changes when I set supportedInterfaceOrientations to portrait only?

CodePudding user response：

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!
    }
}