[jira] [Resolved] (CB-4863) Drop iOS 5.0 support, and support arm64

["Shazron Abdullah (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4863?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Shazron Abdullah resolved CB-4863.
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    Resolution: Fixed

> Drop iOS 5.0 support, and support arm64
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>
>                 Key: CB-4863
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4863
>             Project: Apache Cordova
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: iOS
>    Affects Versions: 3.0.0
>            Reporter: Shazron Abdullah
>            Assignee: Shazron Abdullah
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: ios7
>             Fix For: 3.5.0
>
>
> Adding this issue for discussion.
> We still support iOS 5.0 in the Deployment Target.
> iOS 6.0 and greater support enables arm64 support (64-bit) but not sure of any advantages there, really. 
> Also, this is consistent with our previous support where we only support the current iOS version and one version back. Also, finding a device with iOS 5 support (besides the iPad 1, which cannot have iOS 6 support) is becoming problematic.
> iOS 6 API diffs from 5:
> https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/releasenotes/General/iOS60APIDiffs/index.html
> Apple's note regarding 64-bit support: https://developer.apple.com/news/index.php?id=9162013a
> {quote}
> If you wish to continue to support iOS 6 then you will need to build for 32-bit only. Next month we will be making changes that will allow you to create a single app binary that supports 32-bit on iOS 6, as well as 32-bit and 64-bit on iOS 7. 
> {quote}
> So, based on that I think if we go ahead and support arm64 we wait for this 64-bit iOS fat binary functionality coming "next month". This probably will coincide with their Mavericks 10.9 OS and SDK release with the new accompanying Xcode bump.



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