Launching Image Picker in Portrait Mode on iPad

Question

I am using the following code to launch the image picker in my iPad app (which uses Cocos2D) :

UIImagePickerController * imagePickerController = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];

if ([UIImagePickerController isSourceTypeAvailable:UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera]) { 

    imagePickerController.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera;
    imagePickerController.showsCameraControls = YES;
    imagePickerController.cameraCaptureMode = UIImagePickerControllerCameraCaptureModePhoto;
    imagePickerController.delegate = self;
    imagePickerController.cameraDevice = UIImagePickerControllerCameraDeviceFront;
    [self.view addSubview:imagePickerController.view];
    [self presentModalViewController:imagePickerController animated:YES];

}

I want it to launch in the portrait mode all the time, but it always launches like this :

The image appears in portrait and the image picker UI is in landscape mode. But When I capture the image, it get's rotated 90 degrees clockwise.

I want the image picker UI and the taken image, both to be in portrait mode. How can I fix this ?

Answer 1

Thanks so much guys for all the help, but what worked for me is as follows :

So I found out that it was Xcode's Cocos2D template which was the culprit. It had generated the following code in the RootViewController :

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {

//
// There are 2 ways to support auto-rotation:
//  - The OpenGL / cocos2d way
//     - Faster, but doesn't rotate the UIKit objects
//  - The ViewController way
//    - A bit slower, but the UiKit objects are placed in the right place
//

#if GAME_AUTOROTATION==kGameAutorotationNone
//
// EAGLView won't be autorotated.
// Since this method should return YES in at least 1 orientation, 
// we return YES only in the Portrait orientation
//
return ( interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait );

#elif GAME_AUTOROTATION==kGameAutorotationCCDirector
//
// EAGLView will be rotated by cocos2d
//
// Sample: Autorotate only in landscape mode
//
if( interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft ) {
    [[CCDirector sharedDirector] setDeviceOrientation: kCCDeviceOrientationLandscapeRight];
} else if( interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight) {
    [[CCDirector sharedDirector] setDeviceOrientation: kCCDeviceOrientationLandscapeLeft];
}

// Since this method should return YES in at least 1 orientation, 
// we return YES only in the Portrait orientation
return ( interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait );

#elif GAME_AUTOROTATION == kGameAutorotationUIViewController
//
// EAGLView will be rotated by the UIViewController
//
// Sample: Autorotate only in landscpe mode
//
// return YES for the supported orientations

return ( UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape( interfaceOrientation ) );

#else
#error Unknown value in GAME_AUTOROTATION

#endif // GAME_AUTOROTATION


// Shold not happen
return NO;
}

In the above code I changed this :

return ( UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape( interfaceOrientation ) );

To this :

return ( UIInterfaceOrientationIsPortrait( interfaceOrientation ) );

And that fixed it.