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A comment on Apple will require all new apps to be optimized for iOS 7 from February 1.

Re:Apple will require all new apps to be optimized for iOS 7... by yaeger on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @03:35AM (#6926474)
The question is, by "optimized", do they mean just the UI of the app? The article mentions that the apps must be build with xcode5. But it doesn't specify against which iOS version it must be build.

Do they force devs to not just make their apps looks like iOS7 but also force them to use iOS7.x as a minimum build target? That would really suck considering there still are devices out there that are ineligible to upgrade to iOS7.

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Re:Apple will require all new apps to be optimized for iOS 7... by muzzamike on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @03:59AM (#6926537)
This just means apps will have to be built with Xcode 5. Older iOS versions can still be supported.
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Re:Apple will require all new apps to be optimized for iOS 7... by interpol_p on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @04:22AM (#6926607)
More specifically, it means apps will have to be built with the iOS 7 base SDK (you can modify Xcode 5 to build with the older SDKs as base).

This ensures things like the new style keyboard and status bar UI are used in your app when running on iOS 7.

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