Clean autorotation transitions in a paging UIScrollView

It sounds like you are applying the magic, needed to get the rotated version on screen at the right place, the wrong way.

Since you didn't share any code, the following is just guesswork. Presumably, you apply a rotation and a translation. It sounds like you are rotating the contents of the UIScrollView. Getting this right will be tricky. It's hard to say anything conclusive without code, but if you only have 1 rotation and 1 translation, you're doing it the wrong way. You need to translate the current view to the pivot point, rotate, and translate back. Otherwise the translation will be part of the rotation (hence the big swing).

You'd better rotate the UIScrollView itself. It will always be in a defined location (namely: the screen) with a defined center. The content will then rotate with it.

A simple solution that works well is to register for notifications when the contentSize of the UIScrollView is changed and then update the contentOffset at that moment.

In your view loading method add this line:

[self addObserver:theScrollView forKeyPath:@"contentSize" options:0 context:nil];

In your view unloading method add this line:

[self removeObserver:self forKeyPath:@"contentSize"];

Catch the notification:

- (void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath ofObject:(id)object change:(NSDictionary *)change context:(void *)context
{
    theScrollView.contentOffset = page * theScrollView.bounds.width;
}

Frankly, I don't know what you're doing, since you haven't shown us much at all.

But!

I created a sample project with a few views in a scroll view, and it works fine. Feel free to pick it apart as you wish. It works by creating 5 views, and adding them to the scroll view. Then after these views are set up for the first time, and every time the application rotates, it calls my method alignSubviews to lay them out at the right page locations and make them the same size as the scroll view, while updating the scroll view's contentSize. Before the rotation occurs, it keeps track of what page the scroll view is currently on, and then resets it to that page during the rotation (because the page size has to change).

Download "Rotolling"!

I note this additional information for later reference myself. I solved this with idea from @jtvandes' solution. However, in my case, it was enough with these implementations. Forcing layout again broke my view.

- (void)willRotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation duration:(NSTimeInterval)duration 
{
    currentPageOffset = [hostingScrollView contentOffset].x / [hostingScrollView bounds].size.width;
}
- (void)willAnimateRotationToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation duration:(NSTimeInterval)duration 
{
    //  Layout changed instantly at this time.
    //  So we have to force to set offset instantly by setting animation to NO.
    [hostingScrollView setContentOffset:CGPointMake([hostingScrollView bounds].size.width * currentPageOffset, 0.0f) animated:NO];
}