Given that iOS9 & XCode7 are officially released, is it possible to submit an app for Apple review using a previous version of XCode (eg. XCode 6.1)?
If the answer is affirmative, will the app submitted through XCode 6.1 be able to be downloaded by iOS9 device (provided that the deployment target set to 5.1.1)?
Platform in use:
iMac 21.5-inch, Late 2009
Mac OSX 10.9.5
XCode version 6.1
Apple hasn't asked developers to refrain from submitting apps from old versions of Xcode yet. So, you will be able to submit you app from Xcode 6.1. And it will run in iOS 9 devices. But, it's not the ideal way to handle the app submission. There could be some bugs when the app is run in iOS 9 devices. It is advisable to verify the app in the latest Xcode version and submit from there.
At the moment App Store Team requires that to publish your application must be compliant with iOS8 and 64bit architecture (so Xcode6.x better last Xcode 6.4). The deadline for iOS9 would be probably February for new app and July for updates.
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I have an app on the appstore currently that is built using Xcode 6.2 with a deployment target of iOS 8. The recent release Xcode 7, however only works on OSX 10.10
Can I submit updates to the app store(on 2015 October) by building on an earlier version of Xcode (6.2 in my case) because I am unable to update OSX to 10.10? Does Apple release documentation about this when it releases a new Xcode version? The only thing I found was this
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/qa/qa1806/_index.html
which says that I should aim to build with the latest version of Xcode but does not mention if the app would be rejected/approved if built with a lower version.
Can anybody help me to get a confirmation regarding this.
You can go ahead with your update, Apple will not reject the App.
Make sure you keep Deployment Target as iOS 8 or less.
Risk is your App may get crashed on User devices with iOS 9 as its not been tested and compiled with iOS 9/Xcode 7.
As you know, Apple has just made available the Xcode 6 GM seed and announced that we can now submit iOS 8 apps (Submit Your iOS 8 Apps Today). However, I have a question: does it mean that, starting today, is it required to submit app updates with the new Xcode 6? Can I still use Xcode 5.1.1 (Base SDK iOS 7.1)? If not, could I keep submitting apps with Base SDK targeting iOS 7.1 with Xcode 6?
Thanks
I'm in the midst of submitting an update right now and iTunesConnect states that builds can be submitted with Xcode 5.1.1 or later, or Application Loader 2.9.1 or later.
According to Apple, you can still use Xcode 5.1.1 to update your apps.
Xcode 5.1.1 is the latest version on the App Store !
You should use the latest version of Xcode available on the Mac App
Store to submit your apps. (Xcode Support)
Hope this can help you ;)
At the time of writing (September 12th 2014) you can submit apps with both Xcode 5.1.1 and Xcode 6 GM seed. So both SDKs are allowed. As soon as iOS 8 comes out, the App Store version of Xcode will show an update to Xcode 6.0.
Going by past experiences, at that point you will still be able to download Xcode 5.1.1 from the developer portal and still be able to submit apps with it for a few more weeks/months until Apple will officially announce that the new iOS 8 SDK is required for app submission.
Watch that newsfeed at https://developer.apple.com/news/
An email from apple to its developers said that you could start submitting apps to them for iOS 7. O I have Xcode 5 DPS Version 5.0 (5A11365x) And it says that the version bundle is to old to accept apps for approval. How will this work now because apple said it all would be possible?
You use developer preview version which does not allow to submit app to app store.
Update your XCode to official 5.0 version. (From Mac App Store).
Hope my answer may help..
Its not must actually even you can still submit your apps with iOS6.x version build with your Xcode 4.6.3.
What they trying to convey in that mail is, they are just letting you know that you can now start submitting iOS7 app because there is whole lot of new thing out there with iOS 7.0 sdk.
When I try to convert my iO6.x version to 7.0 with Xcode 5 i didnt face any problem on building or submitting the app.
In order to submit apps to the App Store, you will need Xcode 5.
Submission to the App Store for iOS 7 requires Xcode (build 5A1413 and above).
If you are using any of the Xcode 5 Betas (including the GM Seed), upgrading is necessary. You can either upgrade through the App Store, or download the .dmg through the Apple Developer Portal at developer.apple.com
Do you have the latest version of Xcode 5, which is now the fully released version on the store?
Now, I use Xcode 4.2 supporting iOS 5.0. Apple has just released iOS 5.0.1 beta 2. I can install it on my iPhone.
I want to test with this beta version, i.e build code from Xcode.
How do I build code from Xcode 4.2 for device of iOS 5.0.1 beta?
Please help
In exactly the same way that you would do so for iOS 5.0. We can't talk about beta versions of the software, but we can talk about what happens when newer versions of iOS are released. When you connect a device with a newer version of iOS installed, the Xcode Organizer will give you a message like:
Xcode does not have debugging information for the version of iOS on the device named “Dev iPhone”. Xcode can collect debugging data from the device to enable development with this version of iOS. This process only needs to be done once per iOS version, and will take several minutes.
You simply click OK or similar, and Xcode downloads the necessary debugging data. You can then build to the device from Xcode and use all the debugging tools as usual. This process works for point releases. It is highly unlikely this would work for major updates (e.g. if iOS 6 was released) and it may or may not work for iOS 5.1, depending on the changes included. But when Apple have not released a new version of Xcode to developers, you can be sure it is because one is not required.
It is important to understand the distinction between an updated version of iOS (for the device) and the iOS SDK (for Xcode). A point release of iOS does not necessarily require any change to the iOS SDK, and therefore with Xcode's ability now to download the debugging information on demand (a feature that has been around for a while), you don't necessarily need an updated version of Xcode. Likewise, with Xcode 4.2 you still set the iOS 5.0 as your base SDK even if you are setting an earlier version (e.g. iOS 4.2) as your deployment target. You don't need the iOS SDK v4.2 to target iOS 4.2 for deployment. (Just make sure you add back "armv6" to targeted architectures in your build settings, if you still want to support the iPhone 3G and equivalent iPods, as in Xcode 4.2 this is not included by default.)
I have developed an iOS application. My Xcode version is currently 4 and i want to upgrade to iOS 5. Can i do that without to be worry about the operability of my app later when i become on iOS 5?
Yes, there's nothing to worry about.
You should always build and test your application with the latest release and latest beta version of Xcode/iOS.
As of today this would be something like:
Xcode 4.1 on Lion with iOS 4.3
Xcode 4.2 beta on Lion with iOS 5.0 beta
You can install both of them on the same machine without any problems.
Also, I heard that starting with Xcode 4.2 you will be able to several versions of the simulator.
If you are trying to submit an app to the App Store you cannot build it with the Beta version of XCode. Also note that the latest Beta is iOS 5 and XCode 4.2.
On the iOS Dev Center page after selecting iOS SDK Beta
Xcode 4.2 Developer Preview cannot be used to submit apps to the iOS or Mac App Store. Continue to use the publicly released version of Xcode to compile and submit apps to the App Stores.