Recipe: Responding to Orientation Changes

A device’s screen geometry may influence how you want to lay out interfaces. For example, a landscape aspect ratio may not provide enough vertical range to fit in all your content. Consider Figure 5-10. The portrait layout places the iTunes album art on top of the album name, the artist name, and a Buy button, with the album price. The landscape layout moves the album art to the left and places the album name, artist, and Buy button in the lower-right corner.

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Figure 5-10 The same content in portrait and landscape layouts.

To accomplish this, your layout constraints must be orientation aware. The updateViewControllerConstraints ...

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