I have a UITabBarController, and each tab handles a different UIViewController that pushes on the stack new controllers as needed. In two of these tabs I need, when a specific controller is reached, the ability to rotate the iPhone and visualize a view in landscape mode. After struggling a lot I have found that it is mandatory subclassing UITabBarController to override shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation. However, if i simply return YES in the implementation, the following undesirable side effect arises:

every controller in every tab is automatically put in landscape mode when rotating the iPhone.

Even overriding shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation in each controller to return NO does not work: when the iPhone is rotated, the controller is put in landscape mode.

I implemented shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation as follows in the subclassed UITabBarController:

• (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {

  if([self selectedIndex] == 0 || [self selectedIndex] == 3) return YES;

  return NO;

}

So that only the two tabs I am interested in actually get support for landscape mode. Is there a way to support landscape mode for a specific controller on the stack of a particular tab?

I tried, without success, something like

(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {

if([self selectedIndex] == 0 || [self selectedIndex] == 3)
{	
   if ([[self selectedViewController] isKindOfClass: [landscapeModeViewController class]])
           return YES;
    }

     return NO;

}

Also, I tried using the delegate method didSelectViewController, without success. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.