[aerogear-dev] iOS7 support

[Corinne Krych]

Hello Swift lovers,

We’ve already talked about iOS7 support for our Swift libs in this thread [0] but I’d like to start from fresh with a different approach.

I’ve recently revisit the subject with some experiments and I ended up writing a blog post: How well does Swift play with iOS7? [1]
where I take 2 examples: aerogear-ios-push and aerogear-ios-http with their demo apps: HelloWorld [2] and ChuckNorrisJokes [3] all written in Swift and run them in iOS7 device/simulator.

This is just an experiment, but moving forward I’ve created a JIRA epic [4] to support iOS7 for our aerogear-ios Swift libraries. In the long run,  we will have only one branch to maintain: master. 
All the libs should be tested with iOS7 and iOS8 examples. Some libs can stay in Objective-C (until we feel the need of moving them to Swift) like aerogear-ios-otp for example.

A corraleted JIRA epic [5] is to test all aerogear-ios libs written in Objective-C with iOS8 and Swift. We might have issues around common crypto usage in Swift  [6].

I’d like to adress those 2 epics for iOS 2.4 release and deprecate the 1.6.X branch maintenance. 
wdyt?

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Corinne
[0] http://aerogear-dev.1069024.n5.nabble.com/aerogear-dev-Swift-to-Objective-C-interop-one-aspect-of-iOS7-Swift-support-td10644.html
[1] http://corinnekrych.blogspot.org/2015/04/how-well-does-swift-plays-on-ios7.html
[2] https://github.com/corinnekrych/unified-push-helloworld/tree/ios7.experiment/ios-swift-ios7-nolib
[3] https://github.com/corinnekrych/aerogear-ios-cookbook-1/blob/ios7.support/ChuckNorrisJokes%2FPodfile#L4
[4] TODO when jira is up
[5] TODO when jira is up
[6] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25248598/importing-commoncrypto-in-a-swift-framework