Hello! I wonder if there is anyone out there ;) that have made two different layouts that will kick in if the user is holding the phone (iphone here) in vertical/horisontal mode? The trick to either turn of the rotation or not is not optimal if you for example want to give the user possibilities to view a video or so. I would also like to be able to hide the bottombar if the phone is in horisontal mode. Any tips or suggestion? BR/Stefan

Makes sense...but there a are a few problems with this idea. Apple is super-duper tough on 'what happens on rotation.' Generally speaking, the Apple Interface Guidelines recommend that nothing significant happen on rotation. The idea is that the content is the same and no navigation has taken place simply because the user rotated the device. However, it's very logical that the vertical / horizontal layout (called Portrait and Landscape) work nicely on all screens. In most apps, this simply isn't the case. So, you're left with a design challenge that isn't easy to solve. Technically, it would take a considerable amount of work to 'rebuild' a screen on rotation and it not something most devs. do. I can think of a few game apps that do this but almost no others.

Sounds logical. I was just thinking this ways since it´s the quick fix IMHO - instead och thinking usability friendly from scratch :) I guess that Apples nothing should happens on rotation cover my second second question here? Well...well there´s a saying here in Sweden Vad är väl en bal på slottet from the Disneys Cinderella - meaning roghly and freely translated you can't win them all. BR/Stefan