51–60 of 88 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm still on iOS 5 so I can keep diving directions from google. Based on what you're saying, I never want to upgrade.
Have you tried Google Maps for iOS? It's fantastic and more than makes up for any regressions in the stock app.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it's any consolation, it's bad on an iPhone 5s too. I get constant crashes, animation glitches that need a reboot to fix, it's just unusable and there's no way back to iOS6. I've used it on an iPhone 4, and I don't know how anybody copes. It feels like my 3G was on 4.2.1.
I've had it on the iPhone 5 since iOS7 released and have seen none of these issues. Not sure it's appropriate to claim that your experience is representative, especially since hardware-wise the 5 and 5c are practically identical.
Doesn't requiring the new build pipeline plus 'optimized for iOS 7', mean you can't support most older iOS devices anymore? I know that is how the build pipeline stuff worked for desktop OS X apps - they tended to deprecate the ability to build for older OS versions when you installed the latest rev of XCode. If so, how far back does it go? Like, if I compile an iOS7 optimized app, will it work on iOS6 devices? What…
I'm also interested in the answer to this. Building for Android allows you to target a wide range of versions even if your build target is the latest; is there any analogue to this in the iOS world?
if(version >= 7) {
// some code which only works on iOS7
// or some workaround for iOS7
// code which works in older version
Previously I never had to write such code to support iOS6 and iOS5 together.
But the situation is much better than Android world. I also have the Android version of the same app (http://www.avabodh.com/lekh)and I have to write lot of version specific if-else in the code.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it's any consolation, it's bad on an iPhone 5s too. I get constant crashes, animation glitches that need a reboot to fix, it's just unusable and there's no way back to iOS6. I've used it on an iPhone 4, and I don't know how anybody copes. It feels like my 3G was on 4.2.1.
I've had it on the iPhone 5 since iOS7 released and have seen none of these issues. Not sure it's appropriate to claim that your experience is representative, especially since hardware-wise the 5 and 5c are practically identical.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it's any consolation, it's bad on an iPhone 5s too. I get constant crashes, animation glitches that need a reboot to fix, it's just unusable and there's no way back to iOS6. I've used it on an iPhone 4, and I don't know how anybody copes. It feels like my 3G was on 4.2.1.
I've had it on the iPhone 5 since iOS7 released and have seen none of these issues. Not sure it's appropriate to claim that your experience is representative, especially since hardware-wise the 5 and 5c are practically identical.
iOS 7 is the first Apple system where I felt royally screwed. My iPhone 4 became so slow as to be nearly unusable. Everything now takes seconds, swipes are being missed, even audio gets chopped up when I play back podcasts over bluetooth. There are two reasons for me to be angry about this: * Apple should never have released iOS 7 for iPhone 4 devices. iPhone 4 should have been listed as "unsupported". But had they d…
If it's any consolation, it's bad on an iPhone 5s too. I get constant crashes, animation glitches that need a reboot to fix, it's just unusable and there's no way back to iOS6. I've used it on an iPhone 4, and I don't know how anybody copes. It feels like my 3G was on 4.2.1.
iOS 7 is the first Apple system where I felt royally screwed. My iPhone 4 became so slow as to be nearly unusable. Everything now takes seconds, swipes are being missed, even audio gets chopped up when I play back podcasts over bluetooth. There are two reasons for me to be angry about this: * Apple should never have released iOS 7 for iPhone 4 devices. iPhone 4 should have been listed as "unsupported". But had they d…
Agreed, with reservations. iPhone 4 itself was a grossly mis-executed product, though it wasn't obvious at the time. The core issue is that the iPhone 4's CPU and GPU performance are only marginally better than the 3GS it replaced, but it pushes 4x the number of pixels around. At the time we weren't really pushing the performance envelope, so everything appeared fine. Now we are - it's trivially easy to hit the upper…
A lot like the first retina iPad.
iOS 7 is the first Apple system where I felt royally screwed. My iPhone 4 became so slow as to be nearly unusable. Everything now takes seconds, swipes are being missed, even audio gets chopped up when I play back podcasts over bluetooth. There are two reasons for me to be angry about this: * Apple should never have released iOS 7 for iPhone 4 devices. iPhone 4 should have been listed as "unsupported". But had they d…
I'm still on iOS 5 so I can keep diving directions from google. Based on what you're saying, I never want to upgrade.
Google maps on iOS6+ is far better, IMO, than the Google-powered Maps app on iOS5- or the Apple Maps app on iOS6+ (the last of which has literally never given me correct directions the handful of times I've used it.)
iOS 7 is the first Apple system where I felt royally screwed. My iPhone 4 became so slow as to be nearly unusable. Everything now takes seconds, swipes are being missed, even audio gets chopped up when I play back podcasts over bluetooth. There are two reasons for me to be angry about this: * Apple should never have released iOS 7 for iPhone 4 devices. iPhone 4 should have been listed as "unsupported". But had they d…
Class action suit?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I was thinking that as a web/java developer I don't understand what this means. Does this mean that, essentially, we only build for iOS 7 onwards?
"iOS 7 Optimized" is Apple's way of saying "built with the iOS 7 SDK". Apps that are built for iOS 7 get the new shiny keyboard and some different behaviour when run on iOS 7, but can still run fine on older versions of iOS if the app developer is willing to support older versions of iOS. This is done by setting an option called "deployment target" to an older iOS version when building in Xcode (and testing a ton on…