How can I get the real device's orientation?

Question

All,
When i locked the screen orientation,i want use [[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation] to get screen's orientation ,but it always return UIDeviceOrientationPortrait, so, question is how can i get the real Device's orientation.
thank you very much.

Answer 1

Make sure you're enabling orientation notifications via:

[[UIDevice currentDevice] beginGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications];

If that still doesn't work, you can also use the status bar to figure out the current orientation (if your UI is rotating) via:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarOrientation];