iOS 6 Auto Rotate and Orientation Changes on MonoTouch 5.99 (alpha)

In iOS6, auto rotate and orientation changes have changed quite significantly.

In a nutshell, these are the steps I took to upgrade my monotouch project to work with the new changes:


1. You will need to assign a root view controller to your main application window on FinishedLaunching. This is the crucial bit! I spent quite sometime figuring this out. Basically if you don't set your root view controller, you will get a warning in build output that looks like this: 

Application windows are expected to have a root view controller at the end of application launch

So if previously like me you have this in your FinishedLaunching(UIApplication app) method in main.cs:

window.AddSubview(mainVC.View);

Replace it with this:

window.RootViewController = mainVC;

2. Replace this:

public override bool ShouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation (UIInterfaceOrientation toInterfaceOrientation)

With these two lines:

public override bool ShouldAutorotate()

public override UIInterfaceOrientationMask SupportedInterfaceOrientations()

Obviously you will need to specify the orientation masks your view controller support in SupportedInterfaceOrientstions(). For example, if you support all orientations you might want to do this:

public override bool ShouldAutorotate()

{

return true;

}

public override UIInterfaceOrientationMask SupportedInterfaceOrientations()

{

return UIInterfaceOrientationMask.All;

}

That's my experience in getting auto rotation to work in ios 6 on MonoTouch 5.99. Check out the full release notes in the developer portal or if you don't have a login, you can check it out here.