Confusion using XCode 4.5 for iOS 5.0 and iOS 6.0

Question

I am very much confused between iOS 5.0 and iOS 6.0 with XCode 4.5. It's not very clear if I want to support my new App on iOS 5.0 onwards, which functionality should I use and which are not to use. Basically Xcode 4.5 gives you all functionality like Container Views and Unwind Segues in storyboard (...and many more that I might not be aware) that are available only from iOS 6.0 and you wouldn't know until you run your app and it crashes! Could anyone please let me know any simple solution to this? Do I have to revert back to Xcode 4.4? I am setting deployment target to iOS 5.0 but I couldn't set Base SDK to iOS 5.0 as it doesn't appear in the list. See attached image. Thanks.

Answer 1

If you still want to support 5.0 or 5.1, you may want to go into Xcode Preferences -> Downloads and install the iOS 5.0 or 5.1 simulator.

Answer 2

I had this very same issue. I am using Xcode 4.5 to create a project targetted at iOS 5 so the project base SDK is iOS6.

I got around the issue by editing the MainStoryBoard.storyboard file and removed the trigger="accessoryAction" from the following line

before:

< segue destination="f1z-co-5vQ" kind="push" identifier="ShowTestPoints2" trigger="accessoryAction" id="KQV-Ht-eG9"/>

after:

< segue destination="f1z-co-5vQ" kind="push" identifier="ShowTestPoints2" id="KQV-Ht-eG9"/>