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Nirav Bhatt
Nirav Bhatt

Reputation: 6969

Xcode 5 iOS 5 - support neither for device nor for simulator?

I have couple of apps that run on iOS 5 through 7. It's already pain maintaining different set of apis.

On my new OS X Mavericks box with Xcode 5, it simply refuses to show me iOS 5 simulator.

To add to that pain, when I attach my iOS 5 device, my app simply crash complaining about iOS 6 features (not present in iOS 5 - UICollectionView for example).

Here is the crash log on my iOS 5 device:

Symbol not found: _UICollectionElementKindSectionHeader

Note that for the last problem - I have all conditional compiling MACROS in my code. Such as, I wrap my UICollectionView code between:

#if __IPHONE_OS_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED >= __IPHONE_6_0
#endif

I also do the runtime check to see if the class exist:

if (NSClassFromString(@"UICollectionView"))

I am sure this problem didn't exist on my older box with Xcode 5 and 4.6 (OS X Lion). But I simply can't get it now, and this issue is driving me crazy as it leaves me without iOS 5 support.

What to do?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 232

Answers (3)

Nirav Bhatt
Nirav Bhatt

Reputation: 6969

I got around the problem by linking UIKit as Optional framework instead of Required.

Strange, but true.

Upvotes: 0

ferdil
ferdil

Reputation: 1300

Have you tried checking if you can call the method. I use this sort of thing:

if ([UICollectionView instancesRespondToSelector:@selector(UICollectionElementKindSectionHeader:)])

Or something like that ?

Upvotes: 0

thorb65
thorb65

Reputation: 2716

you could download XCode 4.6.3 from developer.apple.com

Upvotes: 1

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