Wrong value for statusBarOrientation on viewWillAppear

Question

I need to change the image background of a View depending on the orientation. For this, I am using the statusBarOrientation approach in viewWillAppear:

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];
    UIInterfaceOrientation currentOrientation = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarOrientation];
    if (UIInterfaceOrientationIsPortrait(currentOrientation)) {
        NSLog(@"PORTRAIT");
    } else if (UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(currentOrientation)) {
        NSLog(@"LANDSCAPE");
    }   
}

The problem is that the console is always showing PORTRAIT, even when the iPad is held in landscape mode. The same code in viewDidAppear works correctly, but there is too late and the user can see the change of images. That makes me think that the correct state of statusBarOrientation is still not available in viewWillAppear, but I have read in some other questions that this code should work there.

Answer 1

Try

int type = [[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation];
    if (type == 1) {
        NSLog(@"portrait default");
    }else if(type ==2){
        NSLog(@"portrait upside");
    }else if(type ==3){
        NSLog(@"Landscape right");
    }else if(type ==4){
        NSLog(@"Landscape left");
    }