iOS: AVPlayerViewController enable fullscreen rotation in portrait oriented application

Question

I have a UIViewcontroller, which contains a AVPlayerViewController with AVPlayer. I want to enable rotation for AVPlayerViewController(when video is on fullscreen) and disable any rotation for UIViewController. How can I enable rotation only for videos(on fullscreen) in my app?

Have you implemented `supportedInterfaceOrientations` appropriately? — matt, Feb 27 '16 at 00:04
@matt I just return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait in supportedInterfaceOrientations method. UIViewController does not rotate and AVPlayer to. — ton252, Feb 27 '16 at 00:44

Serge Bilyk · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-09T11:41:59.043

Swift 2.2 In AppDelegate to allow rotation for player:

func application(application: UIApplication, supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow window: UIWindow?) -> UIInterfaceOrientationMask {
        guard let vc = (window?.rootViewController?.presentedViewController) else {
            return .Portrait
        }

        if (vc.isKindOfClass(NSClassFromString("AVFullScreenViewController")!)) {
            return .AllButUpsideDown
        }

        return .Portrait
    }

Than create and use subclass of AVPlayerViewController for back to portrait mode when player exit full screen mode:

class YourVideoPlayer: AVPlayerViewController {

    override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
        super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()
        if view.bounds == contentOverlayView?.bounds {
UIDevice.currentDevice().setValue(UIInterfaceOrientation.Portrait.rawValue, forKey: "orientation")
        }
    }

Awesome ! Where did you find the informations about avplayer? — thibaut noah, May 16 '17 at 13:31
>= iOS 10, AVPlayerViewController handles landscape support for video playback in portrait-only apps, thus you should avoid using this hack. — dferrero, May 03 '18 at 23:06

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 19 '18 at 08:28

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For me this was better. Just extend AVPlayerViewController :

import AVKit
import UIKit

class AVPlayerViewControllerRotatable: AVPlayerViewController {

    override var shouldAutorotate: Bool {
        return true
    }

}

Swift 4

answered Feb 19 '18 at 08:28

ergunkocak

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way much easier than dealing with rotation orientation in app delegate level! – joe Sep 28 '19 at 14:02

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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You have to enable the allowable rotations at the project level and then restrict rotation on all the viewControllers you DON'T want to rotate. i.e. if you have 5 viewControllers, you'll need to restrict rotation on 4 of them and only allow rotation on the Player Controller. You can see more on this here Handling autorotation for one view controller in iOS7

edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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answered Mar 01 '16 at 03:18

Tim Bull

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