2 months on ios 64bit requirement.....

Wow the time is upon us already. Should we be worried?

I just submitted a package to ios and it throws a big warning about starting in February 2015 you are required to support 64 bit in order to submit apps....

Considering there's not a public 64 bit beta in 4x cycle yet, I'm a little worried about having a polished exporter in under 2 months.....it is kind of a big deal if nobody can publish with Unity on ios....or everyone has to upgrade to unity 5 to target ios? Does Unity 5 even export 64 bit ios yet?

 

Not sure if you've seen it yet but Unity has a blog post on this issue: http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/11/20/apple-ios-64-bit-support-in-unity/.

 

I did see that, but like I said it's not even in beta for Unity 4x cycle is it?

So it's magically just gonna work from day 1 and it's going to be released in the next 60 days?

 

Yeah, it's a bit worrying.

It's a ridiculous requirement from Apple, IMHO, especially given how little time developers were given to adapt. It's going to cause a lot of grief for users of other tools/tech, not just Unity - and for little if any gain.

I wouldn't at all be surprised if there's going to be a period in which submissions/updates of Unity apps are impossible. Even if the first release/beta arrives before the deadline, there's sure to be bugs which will affect some developers with large projects.

And even if Unity itself is flawless, there could then be a further wait for all of the other middleware (plug-ins/SDKs) that many people use to be updated, too...

But we should be thankful that this feature is coming to Unity 4.x at all. They could have forced us all to upgrade to 5!

 

The 64-bit requirement is for new apps; updates don't have this requirement (at least not until June).

--Eric

 

Well get to work on 64bit Eric!! I DEMAND IT!!! hahahaah jk .
I don't have IOS anymore (thankfully).

 

Got this reminder again too. And, yes, it's worrying. These dates are fast approaching.
Gigi

 

^ That's good. Unfortunately the main plugins we use at work include vuforia and metaio, neither of which work in Unity 5, and probably not for some months.

In the meantime, we're still using 4.5, so people like us have to have 64 bit ios in unity 4.5....those same plugins don't work in 4.6 yet either.

edit:: I hate apple, really do, but have to work with them S***ty of them to do this so drastically rather than as an option. We support back to ipad2.

 

I don't think it's ridiculous at all. arm64 has been around for over a year, and if you ever done any Apple related development at all you will know that they face out old technology and face in new technology at a steady pace. "Whatever they release tomorrow will be required the next week. If you didn't know that by now, at least you know it until next time. You can be sure that iPhone 6/iPhone 6 Plus screen support will be required at some point in the near future, maybe end of next year or early 2016.
I don't want to sound negative but the default build settings (in Unity 4.6.1) is still armv7, which means the default build settings does not fully support iPhone 5 yet.

...eagerly awaiting 64 bit support...