[CB-9703] iPad orientations can no longer differ from iPhone

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.0.1, 5.1.2, 5.2.0, 5.1.1, 5.3.2
• Component/s: cordova-ios

Environment

iOS

• Assignee: Shazron Abdullah
• Reporter: Christoph Neumann
• Created: 24/Sep/15 21:19
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 06:46
• Resolved: 20/Jun/17 21:59

Description

The change introduced in 93ab6b61 means that iPhone and iPad orientation values will always be the same. Unfortunately, a universal iOS project defaults to a portrait orientation for iPhone and all orientations for iPad. Because the Cordova "default" for Orientation in config.xml clears all orientation settings, there is no way to get a standard behavior of having separate defaults for iPhone and iPad.

Some ideas:
1. Make "default" actually match what Apple uses as default because clearing out all the flags is not truly default behavior.
<preference name="Orientation" value="default" />
2. Add a platform-specific preference for iPad.
<platform name="ios">
<preference name="Orientation~iphone" value="portrait" />
<preference name="Orientation~ipad" value="all" />
</platform>

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: CB-10063 cordova-cli 5.4.0 bug with PList creation
• relates to: CB-8783 'default' value for Orientation does not support both landscape and portrait orientations.