Heads up: Rejection from app store due to lack of opposite screen rotation.

[LostFoundry]

Dear all.
Just wanted to post the following app rejection reason, and the solution we implemented:

Reasons for Rejection:
10.1: Apps must comply with all terms and conditions explained in the Apple iPhone Human Interface Guidelines and the Apple iPad Human Interface Guidelines
Aug 24, 2011 10:51 AM. From Apple.
10.1

We found that your app does not comply with the Apple iOS Human Interface Guidelines, as required by the App Store Review Guidelines.

Specifically, we noticed your app only supported the top-up variant of the portrait orientation, but not the bottom-up variant.

While supporting both variants of both orientations, each with unique launch images, provides the best user experience and is recommended, we understand there are certain applications that must run in the portrait orientation only. In this case, it would be appropriate to support both variants of that orientation in your application, e.g., Home button up and down.


So even if you have selected one particular orientation for you MMF2 app, they could reject it as with the current options available on the iOS exporter, it will not work in the upside-down position.


Or solution was to add the following lines to the file MainViewController.m (found in Classes->Application.)
This was for an app that had to work in portrait mode.

Add the code at the end of the file, just before the last line that reads "@end".


- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientationUIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
// Rotate for portrait only
return UIInterfaceOrientationIsPortrait(interfaceOrientat ion);
}


Perhaps this option needs to be implemented in the iOS exporter itself to avoid further rejections?
What do you think?

[LostFoundry]

LOL - that code has a smiley face in it!! Replace it with a colon and an open bracket!

[xhedgehogx]

I have apps in the app store that only support one orientation? Is it an iPad app that was rejected?

[Game_Master]

LOL - that code has a smiley face in it!! Replace it with a colon and an open bracket!

It would still turn into a sad face. You'd have to wrap that code in [noparse][/noparse] tags. This stops the BB Code from being parsed. You can also disable smilies in the options below the advanced post editor.

[Tuna]

This really worries me, I have worked really hard on getting a game ready, and I'm about 1 day from attempting to submit it for approval. I can't imagine having to re-write the entire thing for another orientation... the game uses x/y positions very extensively...

[AyreGuitar]

I've had a similar rejection when doing Obj-C. It was an iPad only version - actually a Lite version of an iPad only version I already had in the App Store. So it would seem sometimes they can get through!
To further complicate things, if your app is for iPhone and runs in Portrait mode, you DON'T want it to work upside down, because if they user gets a phone call, they may be holding their phone upside down.
Never had this as a rejection for iPhone only apps in Portrait mode that only support one way up.

[Anders]

We added auto-landscape to the recent version currently in beta-testing, but we did not add auto-portrait.
If Apple rejects apps based on that we have to reconsider adding it. Will keep you posted.