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iOS Do I still have to support iOS 4.3?

mikezang

mikezang

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My app was developed since iOS 3, there is some weak point.

I want to recreate it using storyboard and ARC and so on, but I am not sure if it is nice choice because storyboard can not be used below iOS 5.

What do you think about this? Please give me your suggestion.
 
Duncan C

Duncan C

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Jan 21, 2008
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Northern Virginia
mikezang said:
My app was developed since iOS 3, there is some weak point.

I want to recreate it using storyboard and ARC and so on, but I am not sure if it is nice choice because storyboard can not be used below iOS 5.

What do you think about this? Please give me your suggestion.
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It's a business decision as much as anything. You will lose some users if you drop support for iOS 4.x. Not very many however (less than 10%).

Our company made the decision a while ago to drop support for anything before 5.0, at least for new app development. We make fairly heavy use of the new parent/child view controller support added in 5.0, and have gotten very used to ARC. (It makes life easier.)

We haven't had to do major changes to our existing apps, and I would hesitate to drop 4.x support unless there was a compelling reason to do so.
 
mikezang

mikezang

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May 22, 2010
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Tokyo, Japan
Duncan C said:
It's a business decision as much as anything. You will lose some users if you drop support for iOS 4.x. Not very many however (less than 10%).

Our company made the decision a while ago to drop support for anything before 5.0, at least for new app development. We make fairly heavy use of the new parent/child view controller support added in 5.0, and have gotten very used to ARC. (It makes life easier.)

We haven't had to do major changes to our existing apps, and I would hesitate to drop 4.x support unless there was a compelling reason to do so.
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I will try to track users who downloaded my app and check if they are still using 4.3.
 
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ritesh2408

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Oct 4, 2009
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India
Check out Flurry Analytics

We are using it. It is most popular & best analytics solution for mobile apps right now..

And From me personal experience you can easily drop support for iOS 4.3
Because from our apps I can say that users of iOS 4.3 are less then 1 % of total users who use our apps.
 
mikezang

mikezang

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May 22, 2010
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Tokyo, Japan
ritesh2408 said:
Check out Flurry Analytics

We are using it. It is most popular & best analytics solution for mobile apps right now..

And From me personal experience you can easily drop support for iOS 4.3
Because from our apps I can say that users of iOS 4.3 are less then 1 % of total users who use our apps.
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Thanks for your info about Flurry, but I am not sure how can I select universal app on startup page, do you have any idea?
By the way, does flurry provide detail analytics for iPhone4S, iPad Mini and so on?
 
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ritesh2408

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Oct 4, 2009
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India
mikezang said:
Thanks for your info about Flurry, but I am not sure how can I select universal app on startup page, do you have any idea?
By the way, does flurry provide detail analytics for iPhone4S, iPad Mini and so on?
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Yes Fully provides detail analytics for every iOS device.

And about creating Universal app in Xcode, just google it..
 
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