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I'll try to convert some of the games to iPad and I got their guide about handling auto rotation, but I find that pretty unnecessary for games. So, what are your thoughts? Will they accept game that's simply portrait or landscape without auto rotation handling?
Thanks
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I *think* they've changed it from required, to recommended. Well, that wasn't autorotation, but the initial orientation... Well. At this point I think they'll approve most anything cause they want to have a huge starting # of apps.
I'm turning autorotation off for next saturday because it just adds a lot of stuff to test. Especially without a device. :P
If you're in the beta, look under the iPad programming guide, in the views and controllers section. It sounds like there will be a few exceptions, but the rule will be auto-rotation. So it's anyone's guess if apple will allow this or not for games. Don't be grumpy if you get rejected because of this.
This would be something useful for cocos2d to do at the scene level though if that's possible.
gaminghorror
Member
It is a strong recommendation but not a requirement. Definetely aimed mostly at Cocoa programs but they mention also that for media-rich applications and games it may just not be feasible.
But definetely support 180° rotations, it's just too simple to implement:
// Tell the UIDevice to send notifications when the orientation changes
[[UIDevice currentDevice] beginGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(orientationChanged:) name:@"UIDeviceOrientationDidChangeNotification" object:nil];// tell the director that the orientation has changed
-(void) orientationChanged:(NSNotification *)notification
{
UIDeviceOrientation orientation = [[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation];
if (orientation == UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeLeft || orientation == UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeRight)
{
[[CCDirector sharedDirector] setDeviceOrientation:(ccDeviceOrientation)orientation];
}
}Thanks GamingHorror. I'll give that a shot.
Put it in, and going to resubmit my ipad app. i did rotation on itial load, but didn't have it in the rest of the app, cause i found that rotating to portrait was just fraking everything up. i'm going to put it in eventually!!!!
@gaminghorror. Just what I was looking for! Thanks heaps.
So now the dilema. Reject the binary and resubmit, or wait... I think reject and resubmit.
Rejected and resubmitted. Back "In Review".
Thanks again GamingHorror. Simplest is best.
A little late to this one but I tried implementing this and its super sensitive. I made it for all 4 orientations. Does anyone have a suggestion? I could see it rotating just because of a user shifting his position a bit. Also if i hold it up infront of me like im watching tv landscape, then i just place it down infront of me it goes to one of the portraits even though the phone is still landscape. Maybe its a bad idea to try to handle all 4 ?
I notice the home screen doesn't have this problem.
Codemattic
Moderator
@greyhoundgames cant the user just lock the orientation if she wants?
Yes they can but I am trying to make it friendly if they dont want to lock it. As it is its jumping all around like a 2 year old who had 4 espressos. I may try to do my own accelerometer based rotation to get the clean feel that the home screen has but if anyone knows an easier way please speak up.
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