How to detect Orientation Change in Custom Keyboard Extension in iOS 8?

Non-deprecated and will work on any device screen size (including future screen sizes Apple will be releasing this year).

In CustomKeyboard ViewController.m:

-(void)viewDidLayoutSubviews {
    NSLog(@"%@", (self.view.frame.size.width == ([[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size.width*([[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size.width<[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size.height))+([[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size.height*([[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size.width>[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size.height))) ? @"Portrait" : @"Landscape");
}

done.

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Or... for a more easy to read version of this code:

-(void)viewDidLayoutSubviews {
    
    int appExtensionWidth = (int)round(self.view.frame.size.width);
    
    int possibleScreenWidthValue1 = (int)round([[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size.width);
    int possibleScreenWidthValue2 = (int)round([[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size.height);
    
    int screenWidthValue;
    
    if (possibleScreenWidthValue1 < possibleScreenWidthValue2) {
        screenWidthValue = possibleScreenWidthValue1;
    } else {
        screenWidthValue = possibleScreenWidthValue2;
    }
    
    if (appExtensionWidth == screenWidthValue) {
        NSLog(@"portrait");
    } else {
        NSLog(@"landscape");
    }
}

In order to update your custom keyboard when the orientation changes, override viewDidLayoutSubviews in the UIInputViewController. As far as I can tell, when a rotation occurs this method is always called.

Additionally, as the traditional [UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarOrientation] doesn't work, to determine the current orientation use the following snippet:

if([UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.width < [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.height){
    //Keyboard is in Portrait
}
else{
    //Keyboard is in Landscape
}

Hopefully this helps!