I am using SWIFT in xcode 6 to develope my application AND needs to support the APP for iphone 4 and later versions... So have selected the 'Deploment Target' as 7.1. In simple words needs to support iOS7, iOS8 AND iOS9...
When using Alert View I came across in many places discussing now we have to use newly introduced 'UIAlertController' rather than the old 'UIAlertView'...
By reading got to know UIAlertView is deprecated from ios 8.
But in my case as I have to support for ios 7.1 AND I can NOT only use 'UIAlertController'.
I started using as the following way as many tutorials explains...
if (objc_getClass("UIAlertController") != nil)
{
// Use UIAlertController
}
else
{
// Use UIAlertView
}
But in this way got to write the same code twice and really annoyiong... Either I have to create a custom Alertview combining both or needs to continue coding like this....
but just to test I've used only UIAlertView
(ignoring UIAlertController) and the app runs fine even in ios 8 simulators... But the document says UIAlertView is deprecated from iOS 8.0...
So my question is, Like to hear what the best practice to continue my app with these API changes... Is it alright if I ignore 'UIAlertController' and work with old 'UIAlertView' until stop support for iOS7 one day... Will that effect in to my app in any way bad? Thanks
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