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CherryBrandy
CherryBrandy

Reputation: 55

iPhone and SDK different version compatibility issues

I am a beginner Apple developer and I have some issues I would like to resolve.

First of all, I am curently working on Xcode 3.2.6 because I haven't enrolled for the developer program yet. I would like to know if Apple only accepts apps (for the App Strore) compiled on SDK 4. Secondly, I want my apps to work both on iPhone 3 and 4. What would you advice me to do? I have read in several developer forums that in order to achieve this I have to build my application with 3.1 iOS as a target. Is this correct? Finally, is there any problem due to the difference in resolution between iPhone 3 and iPhone 4? Which resolution do you think I should use?

Thank you in advance, Cherry

Upvotes: 1

Views: 320

Answers (2)

Legolas
Legolas

Reputation: 12345

If you are aiming for iOS 3, you will end up not using the features of iOS 4, which is the majority.

This is Apple's statement.

Target the latest iOS release. 

Targeting the latest release allows you to take advantage of all the features 
available in the latest version of iOS. However, this approach may offer a smaller 
set of users capable of installing your application on their devices because your     
application cannot run on iOS releases that are earlier than the target release.`

Target an earlier iOS release. 

Targeting an earlier release lets you publish your application to a larger set of 
users (because your application runs on the target OS release and later releases), 
but may limit the iOS features your application can use.`

But I would suggest that you target the iOS 4 as people are now targeting iOS 5, and in another 8 months, I am sure Apple would release iOS 6 (They are very quick with their updates), and I personally feel that targeting iOS 3 is not going to give you great results in the long run.

Upvotes: 1

Aleksejs Mjaliks
Aleksejs Mjaliks

Reputation: 8707

  • Set Base SDK to latest (4.3).
  • Set Target SDK to 3.1.
  • Avoid features available only in iOS 3.2 or later (e.g., don't use blocks, don't frameworks introduced in iOS 3.2 or later, always check availability of methods). Later, when you get more experience with Objective-C, you may try to combine features of more modern iOS, but still keep compatibility with older iOSes.
  • Don't worry about resolution. It affects only images – if you want to take full advantage of Retina display, then you will need to create images for both resolutions (std. and hi-res).

P.S. I suggest you to avoid support for iOS 3.2 or earlier. iOS 4 introduces a lot of nice and helpful features. And I pretty sure, Apple will revoke support for iOS 3.x soon after iOS 5 release.

Upvotes: 2

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