Poll: Which iOS SDK do you use?

Anders · March 6, 2012 at 6:36 PM

Hi everybody!
Here are Clickteam we are wondering which versions of of the iOS SDK you are using.
It matters because we want to give you the best possible runtime as we can.

Recently we have run into some limitations of what we can do with the older SDK's (iOS4 specifically), and we wanted to know if the iOS4 SDK is even used by anyone any longer now that iOS5 have been out for a while.
To be precise these are the current things we have workarounds for in iOS4:
- Screen layout: We offset the screen by a few pixels as a workaround for a black-screen bug in iOS4.
- No asynchronous image downloading in Active Picture (we fall back to synchronous download that pauses the app while downloading)
- Hi-Score object uses an ugly hack to implement the text input in the text dialog which can cause some interface problems.

We don't want to remove support for iOS4 as long as people are using it, but it is holding us back a bit.
I recently found out a way to make the Game Center Leaderboards show up in the correct orientation, plus it allows for smooth animated screen rotation when you use auto-landscape and auto-portrait mode - but it requires us to go full iOS5 then.

So which iOS SDK do you currently use to compile your games exported from MMF2?

Koji_Kabuto · March 6, 2012 at 6:43 PM

Hi Andos, iOS 5 SDK is fine for me!

Renatos · March 6, 2012 at 6:53 PM

iOS5

knpmaster · March 6, 2012 at 7:54 PM

I'm pretty sure I use iOS 5

DTownTony · March 6, 2012 at 7:55 PM

iOS 5 100%

AndyH · March 6, 2012 at 10:26 PM

I'm not sure what benefit it would be to use iOS4 or older now? I'd say go with iOS5.

DaveC · March 6, 2012 at 11:44 PM

do you mean we would only be able to build apps that can run on iOS 5+? I'm pretty sure some iPhones can't update past iOS4 so it would limit users a little..

Anders · March 7, 2012 at 1:01 AM

My iPod Touch 3rd gen runs iOS5 flawlessly. I don't know which iOS SDK is the oldest Apple accepts when it comes to App Store approval. Does anyone know?

mobichan · March 7, 2012 at 1:06 AM

I am using iOS 5. And my 3rd gen ipod touch is running iOS 5 as well.

geothefaust · March 7, 2012 at 4:33 AM

I'm using iOS 4 SDK, only because I saw there were some bugs with MMF2 iOS exporter with Lion, so I have stuck with Snow Leopard. Are there still show stopper bugs with the exporter with Lion?

Why not support both, and choose which version your game/app is targeting much like another exporter in testing does?

Aasland · March 7, 2012 at 9:31 AM

iOS 5 SDK here

Anders · March 7, 2012 at 9:52 AM

PixelatedPict: I haven't heard about the Lion issues, what are they?
I'm compiling with iOS5 SDK on Snow Leopard just fine. iOS5 SDK isn't limited to Lion at all

JoKa · March 7, 2012 at 10:17 AM

Do I get this right:
You want to upgrade to iOS5 SDK, but that doesn't mean the target devices have to run the iOS5 operating system?

When I connected an iPod running iOS5 to my Mac, the Xcode with iOS SDK4 could not access it, so I had to upgrade to iOS5 SDK. But everything I create with Xcode still runs on iPad with iOS4. Which is important for maximum exposure. So, could we still develop for iOS4 devices?

DistantJ · March 7, 2012 at 1:03 PM

I use the iOS5 SDK, but I target the project for iOS4.2.

AyreGuitar · March 7, 2012 at 1:12 PM

Currently running iOS4 SDK on Snow Leopard, targetting iOS 4.2 - only held off on iOS5 SDK because people on this forum said they where having problems with it (about 6 months ago!) - would be prepared to upgrade to iOS5 SDK if get better performance/less bugs. I do still have a 2nd gen iPod touch I use for performance testing which can't be upgraded to iOS 5.

Bigfoot · March 7, 2012 at 6:18 PM

ios 5

geothefaust · March 7, 2012 at 7:45 PM

Hi Andos! I don't remember specifically what the problems were, I just remember a thread or two and some posts (as mentioned by Kevin, above).

Which version of Xcode are you using, by chance? I'm using Xcode 4.2, but everything I read doesn't indicate that it supports iOS 5. Is this the case or wrong? Forgive me, I am a mac n00b.

Anders · March 7, 2012 at 8:02 PM

I use XCode 4.2 and iOS5 SDK

Paul_Boland · March 11, 2012 at 9:49 PM

Quote from Andos

I use XCode 4.2 and iOS5 SDK

Now to show how out of sync with all this I am... I thought Xcode was the iOS SDK!?! I run Xcode 4.2, is that not iOS 5? Feel free to bash some sense into me ;).

JoKa · March 12, 2012 at 9:44 AM

I had to upgrade to Xcode 4.3, which includes iOS5 SDK. Only noticed it, because I connected an iPod running iOS5 and Xcode could not access the device. Seems Xcode can also be used to create MAC apps, so there are different SDKs available.

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