Setting the Minimum iOS Version for your Titanium Project

With Appcelerator’s release of Titanium SDK 2.1.2 you can now specify the minimum iOS version in your tiapp.xml file.  This is a big step forward in managing all of your cross platform configurations in one file.  For me this has removed the latest need for a custom plist,

Just add the min-ios-ver node to the ios configuration section in your project’s tiapp.xml.  The below example sets a minimum iOS SDK level to 5.0.

<ios>
    <min-ios-ver>5.0</min-ios-ver>
    <plist>
        <dict>
            <key>UIPrerenderedIcon</key>
            <true/>
            <key>UIStatusBarStyle</key>
            <string>UIStatusBarStyleBlackTranslucent</string>
            <key>UISupportedInterfaceOrientations</key>
            <array>
                <string>UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait</string>
                <string>UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown</string>
            </array>
        </dict>
    </plist>
</ios>

This has streamlined the deployment process for me both via Titanium Studio and Transport.py.