There seems not to be an SDK 2.x.x for Snow Leopard. Or am I mistaken?
BTW, I'm loving the built-in Clang!! Kudos to the Xcode team!
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I asked about this at WWDC and was told that the 2.2 SDK doesn't work with XCode 3.2. I tried just copying it over, and it didn't work. That said, I'm not sure how many iPhone customers are still running 2.2...
Mark Bessey
2009-08-29 04:46:47
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You can write applications targeting iPhone OS 2.x for Snow Leopard. Just make sure you are not using any iPhone OS 3.0 specific API:s.
You can also write applications that target both 2.x and uses 3.0 features if available. Two things to keep in mind if you do:
- Link any iPhone OS 3.0 frameworks weakly.
- Be sure to check the
[UIDevice currentDevice].systemVersionbefore calling something 3.0-ish.
Could be a third bullet; Ask yourself if user who did not even care to upgrade to iPhone OS 3.0, is likely to care for installing apps?
PeyloW
2009-08-29 08:45:09
People I know who haven't upgraded their iPhone, are usually those who use iTunes rarely - they're still on the same OS as when they bought their iPhone + no apps. However, for some w/ iPod Touches, they may not have wanted/been able (think kids) to pay the upgrade fee.See my answser from an Apple employee below for targeting 2.x.
mahboudz
2009-08-29 16:37:39
Could you elaborate a little more on "set your Active Executable to 2.2.1"? Did you make another build target? Also, please cite or link to the source so we can know where to look in a similar future situation.
ento
2009-09-09 14:23:37
No you don't need to make another build target. Just go to your current target's build settings, look for iPhone OS Deployment Target.The above is from an email, so I can't link to source, but here is pretty much the same: https://devforums.apple.com/thread/26030
mahboudz
2009-09-09 19:07:20
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This is a big problem because we can't test apps for OS 2.x without a device that have OS 2.x! http://www.fdambrosio.net/archives/1395
Francesco
2009-09-10 18:10:35
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There's a problem with supporting iPhone OS 2.x and iPhone OS 3.x related to device or interface rotation animation:
Read my blog post here: http://blog.jessearmand.com/post/358250047/regarding-iphone-os-compatibility-and-support-of-older
Jesse Armand
2010-02-05 17:52:06
This clinched it for me (even if I don't use those APIs). Looks like backwards compatibility back to 2.x is not really expected and not worth it
Phil Nash
2010-04-06 20:31:19
Definitely, I just hope there are no more problems in newer versions of the SDK.
Jesse Armand
2010-04-10 06:31:56