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edited: March 10, 2014, iOS 7.1 has been released and many of the issues of this thread have been resolved. Marking this thread obsolete.
IOS 7 is out the door. Does it matter to you?We know you are excited for the iOS 7 release, as are we. Lots of interesting, exciting, and provoking changes! We’re glad you use MobiOne and wanted to give you a quick update on MobiOne, apps it produces, and iOS 7.
Native App Developers:
Awesome, you are using MobiOne to develop your mobile apps. Carry on doing so with one small caveat. iOS 7 with MobiOne continues to be a great experience with the only issue being the toggle widget. We’ll be releasing MobiOne 2.5 M2 in a few hour or so with some nice improvements to increase compatibility with this exciting iOS 7 release including a fix for the toggle. That said, most native apps built will already be functioning well, but like all things, it doesn’t hurt to test!
Mobile Safari Web App Developers:
If you are using Mobile Safari, unfortunately the story isn’t so wonderful. Due to redesign of key functionalities in iOS 7, certain existing applications including those generated by MobiOne can have significant functional and UI layout issues. We’ve been tracking this issue and working on plans to mitigate but unfortunately the X/Y layout approach of MobiOne, while easy for getting started, does not map cleanly yet to the new iOS 7 model. In addition, there are changes (regressions?) in how Web Clips work that can also cause you grief. See farther below for a list of issues in iOS 7.
To that end, we’re offering a free license of MyEclipse Pro to our MobiOne customers to move over to take advantage of the jQuery Mobile Pallette support. This support in MyEclipse provides outstanding mobile development and build services, in a more web-app friendly approach with compatibility for iOS 7. Please contact mailto:sales@genuitec.com to take advantage of this offer if you are experiencing the above issues.
There are a series of compatibility issues that have been reported, but due to some of these being recently reported to Apple, potentially due to architectural changes in iOS 7, and/or cleaning up of former defects, we’re doing our best to address and mitigate them in MobiOne, however from the discussions on these links, you’ll see there is quite a bit to do and we can’t commit to a timeline given some actions may require work from Apple as well.
Issues Reported in Apple Forums:
* Most links require a dev account with AppleWebClip actions – broken url handling
Source: https://devforums.apple.com/message/889059
WebClips overwritten
Source: https://devforums.apple.com/thread/203122
Back button broken in webclip with appcache enabled*
Source: http://goo.gl/SFoQXB
*Being reported to Apple.
Alert/Confirm/Prompt in webclip do not work
Source: https://devforums.apple.com/thread/198417
Digest of general changes in iOS 7
Source: https://devforums.apple.com/thread/193183Please see this article that outlines HTML issues on iOS 7: http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/safari-ios7-html5-problems-apis-review
Richard Davey (commenter) sums up the core issue: ” There is no way to have a truly fullscreen experience on your website. This was one of the wonderful aspects of iOS 6, and losing it is a major step backwards.”
Key issues:
– Safari does not generate events to identify address and nav bar visibility and display resize
– former technique for hiding addressbar is broken
– websql sizing issue; no indexdb yet
– homescreen webclips suffer numerous issues: can not open a url (tel:,sms:,email:,etc), no alerts, app cache breaks history, multiple homescreen apps are mysteriously bonked by iOS7Hi Wayne.
According latest news (e. g. https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/mobilehig/index.html) new apps or updates for apps in the Apple Store need to have iOS7 style and also the code is checked that it is based upon Xcode 5.
If these 2 condititions are not met, the App will not be published. – In what ways does this affect MobiOne Users?JohnJake2
>the code is checked that it is based upon Xcode 5
This is the only hard requirement that I have seen apple specify. No worries, MobiOne 2.5 has been in compliance since its release. I’m not aware of any hard requirement that apps conform to ios7 look & feel guidelines (yet). Please share any additional info you may have on this topic and we’ll give it a good look asap.
Correction – yep, it appears apple will be imposing an ios7 look & feel requirement for all new and updated apps submitted to the itunes app store. We will follow up with additional info asap.
