我可以在Mac Mini 2009后期为iOS 10构建应用程序吗

Question

Am new to iOS development please help me to understand.

I've got a Mac Mini Late 2009 Core 2 Duo. It's running EL Capitan, and as far as my knowledge concern it can not be updated to Sierra. Please correct me if am wrong.

If I can not update the OS, then can I build apps for iOS 8 & that app should also work on iOS 10. Because on EL Capital I can run only Xcode 7.3 as far as my knowledge concern.

But I guess apps which are already there in market targeted for iOS 7 or 8, at-least not all apps but 80% of them also run on iOS 9 or 10.

Please forgive me if asking the wrong question but please don't ban me.

Answer 1

I think your question was answered here: Minimum Xcode version to upload to App store (As on February 2016)

Based on that, the summary is that it might or it might not work. Apple says:

But it's important to understand that using an older SDK is a temporary workaround, not a solution. Issues preventing your app from using the latest SDK should be fixed as soon as possible. It will be much easier to fix these issues while the older build system is still supported.

And also guide you to verify if your Xcode configuration is accepted:

To determine if an older Xcode configuration is currently accepted by the App Store, you can choose "Archive" under the "Product" menu to make an archived build, then use the Validate feature, to test if that build meets minimum requirements for submission to the App Store.

More info about it here: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1806/_index.html

I hope this helps :)