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react-native-orientation

Listen to device orientation changes in react-native and set preferred orientation on screen to screen basis. Orientation listener adapted from @clavery. Preferred orientation on screen to screen basis adapted from @dsibiski rnplay-ios.

Add it to your project

1. Run npm install react-native-orientation --save
2. Open your project in XCode, right click on your project and click Add Files to "Your Project Name"
3. Add RCTOrientation from your node_modules/react-native-orientation folder.
4. Open AppDelegate.h and add the following property above UIWindow @property (nonatomic) bool shouldRotate;
5. Open AppDelegate.m and add the following before the @end

- (NSUInteger)application:(UIApplication *)application supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow:(UIWindow *)window {
  NSUInteger orientations;

  orientations = UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;

  if (shouldRotate == YES) {
    orientations = UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAllButUpsideDown;
  }

  return orientations;
}

Whenever you want to use it within React Native code now you can: var Orientation = require('react-native-orientation');

Usage

  _orientationDidChange: function(orientation) {
    if(orientation == 'LANDSCAPE'){
      //do something with landscape layout
    }else{
      //do something with portrait layout
    }
  },
  componentDidMount: function(){
    Orientation.shouldRotate(1); //this will allow rotation

    Orientation.addOrientationListener(this._orientationDidChange);
  },
  componentWillUnmount: function() {
    Orientation.removeOrientationListener(this._orientationDidChange);
  }

Events

addOrientationListener(function)

removeOrientationListener(function)

Functions

shouldRotate(BOOL)

shouldRotate value should be either 0 or 1

_orientationDidChange(orientation)

orientation can return either LANDSCAPE PORTRAIT UNKNOWN

TODOS

• Add some way to allow setting a preferred orientation on a screen by screen basis.