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Apple to Require New App Store Submissions to be 'Optimized for iOS 7' on February 1

proline said:
Funny, iPhone users spend most of their time reading text in Safari, which has always been black on white, yet nobody ever complained. Your whining will fall on suitably deaf ears... Better start shopping elsewhere.
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There are mobile sites out there (Ars Technica for example) that have an option for light on dark theme, which makes for easier reading at night. I wish more sites would do that. But for many apps out there, the devs have opted for the same overall bleached look of 7. I'm sorry my whining annoys you. Perhaps next time you should just refrain from reading it.
 
Millah said:
In case some of you negative nancies missed this, it does not mean the apps need to LOOK like Apples iOS 7 apps. They can look however they want. They simply need to be built using the latest XCode and adopt new frameworks. You know, to ensure applications are at the very least COMPATIBLE with 7 and perform well. Kind of important when 3/4 of the install base is running 7.
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Can't be that popular, because all my friends hate it... :rolleyes:
 
BornAgainApple said:
There are mobile sites out there (Ars Technica for example) that have an option for light on dark theme, which makes for easier reading at night. I wish more sites would do that. But for many apps out there, the devs have opted for the same overall bleached look of 7. I'm sorry my whining annoys you. Perhaps next time you should just refrain from reading it.
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Now that would be cool - a os that uses the ambient light sensor to adjust the darkness / brightness of the theme based on available light.
 
Wait, but this only means new apps that aren't optimized will be rejected. But the ones already in the store are staying despite not being optimized for iOS7. Am I getting this right?
 
BornAgainApple said:
There are mobile sites out there (Ars Technica for example) that have an option for light on dark theme, which makes for easier reading at night. I wish more sites would do that. But for many apps out there, the devs have opted for the same overall bleached look of 7. I'm sorry my whining annoys you. Perhaps next time you should just refrain from reading it.
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99% of websites are black on white text and not much else just like iOS 7 and you know it. The fact that you can't reconcile your use of the internet with your hate for iOS speaks to the deep flaws in your argument.
 
So this means in a nut shell, make sure you use Xcode 5 to build the app - and make sure it doesn't blow up when running on an iOS7 device, not so?

Reason i ask: We currently have an old app, which we need to support until Q1 2014 - we are busy with a complete redesign of the app - which will be iOS7 only. Our idea is to keep the iOS6 app "alive" until the new app is out.

With the new requirement - we can build and submit updates to the old app to the app store, as long as it was done with Xcode 5 and works well on iOS 7, right?
 
proline said:
99% of websites are black on white text and not much else just like iOS 7 and you know it. The fact that you can't reconcile your use of the internet with your hate for iOS speaks to the deep flaws in your argument.
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There is difference between surfing and reading the web and setting the alarm clock for the next day: duration, engagement, potential environment light etc.
 
bradl said:
Question of the day: Does 'Optimized for iOS 7' = no backwards compatibility with iOS 6?
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No, it's possible to build an app with the iOS 7 SDK that still works on iOS 6. But, depending on the app, it can make life pretty difficult for developers to do this.

In my experience there's a lot more problems (differences with font handling, differences with UITableView layout, etc) that can crop up compared to, say, supporting iOS 5 with the iOS 6 SDK.

Also, if you want to support some of the new iOS 7 features, you end up needing to conditionalize a lot of code, do a lot of extra testing, etc.

So, given these issues (and the fact that over 85% of our users are on iOS 7 already) we've decided to go iOS 7-only with our next release.

If you try to download an iOS 7-only app with iOS 6, the app store will now prompt you to download the "last compatible" version, which is a big help.

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Tander said:
With the new requirement - we can build and submit updates to the old app to the app store, as long as it was done with Xcode 5 and works well on iOS 7, right?
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Right, but remember that if you build with Xcode 5 then your app with have the iOS 7 UI when running on iOS 7.
 
Reason077 said:
No, it's possible to build an app with the iOS 7 SDK that still works on iOS 6. But, depending on the app, it can make life pretty difficult for developers to do this.

In my experience there's a lot more problems (differences with font handling, differences with UITableView layout, etc) that can crop up compared to, say, supporting iOS 5 with the iOS 6 SDK.

Also, if you want to support some of the new iOS 7 features, you end up needing to conditionalize a lot of code, do a lot of extra testing, etc.

So, given these issues (and the fact that over 85% of our users are on iOS 7 already) we've decided to go iOS 7-only with our next release.

If you try to download an iOS 7-only app with iOS 6, the app store will now prompt you to download the "last compatible" version, which is a big help.

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Right, but remember that if you build with Xcode 5 then your app with have the iOS 7 UI when running on iOS 7.
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Okay so there is no way to have the iOS6 look and feel on iOS7 when building using Xcode 5, right?

If so.. then that is a problem. :(
 
proline said:
99% of websites are black on white text and not much else just like iOS 7 and you know it. The fact that you can't reconcile your use of the internet with your hate for iOS speaks to the deep flaws in your argument.
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This one isn't. Most aren't. This B/W fantasy of yours wasn't even true ten years ago.

Don't let that stop you pulling bogus stats out of your rear orifice, though.
 
weckart said:
This one isn't. Most aren't. This B/W fantasy of yours wasn't even true ten years ago.

Don't let that stop you pulling bogus stats out of your rear orifice, though.
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You know you're beaten when you start trying to claim that mobile MacRumors content is something other that black on white text. Or are you going to pretend that the adverts somehow spice it up? I love the desperate machinations that the anti-iOS 7 people have to go through (ironically the same people who complained about iOS 6 being stale).
 
BvizioN said:
How about nothing else except gray or black? :rolleyes:

You know, because these devices will be used only by over 50 year old man.
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Puppies, lollipops and butterflys? Should work for all the kids too young to sign a phone contract :)
 
sazivad said:
Developers who realize the need for night-themed apps are the best kind of developers.
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Ever heard of the inverted mode in iOS? It's assigned to my home-button-triple-press, and always has been useful, but in iOS 7 it's even more - since the apps are so clean now, inverting colors really inverts the full screen, where previously always there was some toolbar/frame/whatever which remained painfully bright.

So, the need for bright developers is much reduced when you know what your device can do.
 
Does this mean that iOS 7 will be optimized for iOS 7? ;)

Or at least make it so there aren't long gaps in touch response after almost anything, and not shutting down at 23% battery? (It's even more pathetic that it still thinks it's 23% when it turns back on.....).

It will be nice to have the updated keyboards I suppose.
 
proline said:
You know you're beaten when you start trying to claim that mobile MacRumors content is something other that black on white text. Or are you going to pretend that the adverts somehow spice it up? I love the desperate machinations that the anti-iOS 7 people have to go through (ironically the same people who complained about iOS 6 being stale).
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Last I looked, much of Apple's iOS7 interface was gray on white text. It looks most like Office 2013. At least with black and white you can reduce/raise brightness to match your current surroundings and still read it.

Please continue to ridicule individuals against the forum rules, it's entertaining.
 
Fine and nice but Apple needs to focus on legacy support for both hardware and software. Software should gracefully fall back on features to work with older hardware. Older software should continue to work on newer hardware. Apple can make this happen all the way back and that would support the classics of software from the past. Just because they're updating and want to sell new hardware doesn't mean our media and software should be abandoned.

This also would be the green thing to do.
 
mijail said:
Ever heard of the inverted mode in iOS?
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Invert Colors is indeed a useful feature, but not when there's anything other that just pure text.

Trying to look at inverted-colors photos is annoying.

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byke said:
I hate ios 7, as do most of my friends who updated without knowing the change would be so great for them.
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Why do they hate it if "the change is so great for them"?
 
proline said:
99% of websites are black on white text and not much else just like iOS 7 and you know it. The fact that you can't reconcile your use of the internet with your hate for iOS speaks to the deep flaws in your argument.
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Please tell me where I used the word "hate"...PLEASE. I happen to like most of what iOS 7 brings to the table. And in case you misread my original post, I was speaking of APPS...not websites. I merely used one website as an EXAMPLE of what I prefer. You just enjoy trying to bring others down to your level. I believe that falls under the category of "trolling".
 
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Apple has published a new announcement*for developers on its dev center website notifying them that all new App Store submissions must be built with the latest version of Xcode 5 and optimized for iOS 7.
The new rule goes into effect on February 1, 2014 and means that any apps built on older versions of Xcode or non-iOS 7 optimized apps will be rejected from the App Store.

In addition, this also applies to app updates, providing some inspiration for developers to update their developer tools and optimize their apps for iOS 7 as the updates will be rejected otherwise. Optimizing an app for iOS 7 does not necessarily mean it needs to look different, but that the underlying construction of the app must be optimized for the new OS.

Earlier this month, Apple's App Store usage numbers indicated that iOS 7 had been installed on 74 percent of devices connected to the App Store. The new rule indicates Apple is eager to get developers to take advantage of iOS 7's high adoption rate and make their apps compatible with it to ensure higher user satisfaction.

Article Link: Apple to Require New App Store Submissions to be 'Optimized for iOS 7' on February 1
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Ohhhh...Its really a surprising news for all iOS developers to upload app which optimized with iOS 7.
 
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