iOS 6 UI Interface Orientation - shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: Not Working

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The method shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: is NOT supported in iOS 6. Its deprecated. Just in case if you are a newbie, who just stared working in cocoa, and wondering why is your view controller messed up in iOS 6 and perfect in iOS 5, just know that shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: is not supported anymore. Even though it may work well with Xcode 4 to 4.3 it will NOT work on Xcode 4.5. 

Apple provides a new method to get this thing done, in a much cleaner fashion. You use supportedInterfaceOrientations instead. It returns all of the interface orientations that the view controller supports, a mask of interface orientation values.

UIInterfaceOrientationMask Enum:

These constants are mask bits for specifying a view controller’s supported interface orientations.

Example:

Again, if you are newbie searching for an example, let me give you an example. Consider that you have to set your interface orientation to both left and right landscape orientations:

Using shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: method:

Using supportedInterfaceOrientations method:

UPDATE: This is a reply to an email which I received. Wanted to share this update.

     I am always glad to help anybody, if I have the time for it. Well from iOS 6.0, the system never asks for the supported interface orientations with the view controllers. It only asks the parent. In most of the cases, AppDelegate is always the parent. This is a line of code from the ReWire (http://www.rewireapp.com/) app that I have been working lately. I had a specific requirement. I had to set landscape mode only to VideoMeditationViewController. The rest of the video controllers should only support portrait orientation. So here is a solution:

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

    if([rwNavigationController.topViewController isMemberOfClass:[VideoMeditationViewController class]]){

        return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape;

    }

    else{

        return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;

    }

 Yes, I know this is a hack. And I know this is not an elegant way of doing things. But trust me, this is the easiest.

Xcode - Could not launch app - No such file or directory Error.

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It has been 4 months since I have been developing for Apple (iOS). As a user, I am in love with Apple. But as a developer, I feel Apple is a crap. I mean, It treats developers like a piece of crap. I hate tools that apple provide for developers. Often buggy. I loved Microsoft from a developers perspective. Okie, to the subject now. I found this really annoying problem with Xcode and fixed it. When you run a project on Xcode, you sometimes end up with a message like this:

Could not launch app - No such file or directory

Thats really annoying. This error happens in a number of different situations. Sometime restarting the Xcode, fixes the problem. If not, follow these steps:

1. Disconnect your device. 
2. Delete the app from your device. 
3. Quit xcode (Don't just simply close the window, quit it) 
4. Delete derived data folder (~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/-gbrvhlvwmpiobxdujegtghggrffp - or something like that) 
5. Now start Xcode, connect device and run the project. It should work fine.

There it is.

EDIT: Weird. Even theses steps are not helping me sometimes. I dont know what is causing this problem. When everything else fails, restarting both Mac and iOS device solved the issue in some situation. And what is weirder? Some times the app just runs fine the next day, without me changing anything.  I know I am not practicing an elegant solution, but this is the only working solution I found so far. If you have any Ideas, you can mail me. I ll update this post as necessary. BTW, this is the post with most hits on my blog. 20,000 and counting! :)