David Hanak The upcoming release of a new version of iOS will bring one significant milestone that will greatly affect the appearance of applications on this platform. iOS 11 will be the first version of iOS that will not support 32-bit apps. Apple has been preparing developers for this step for quite some time, but as it turned out, a significant number of them leave the transition of their applications until the last minute. The Sensor Tower server, which tracks the transition to 64-bit applications over the past few months, came up with interesting data. The conclusion is clear, the number of conversions has more than doubled over the past six months.
Since June 2015, Apple has required developers to support 64-bit architecture in their newly published applications (we have written more about this issue <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1932/8043/files/200721_ODSTOUPENI_BEZ_UDANI_DUVODU__EN.pdf?v=1595428404" data-gt-href-en="https://en.notsofunnyany.com/">here</a>). Since the release of iOS 10, notifications have also started to appear in the system informing about the potential incompatibility of 32-bit applications in the future. This means that the developers had more than two years to modify or redesign their applications as necessary. However, the trend towards a 64-bit architecture may have been visible even earlier, as the first iPhone with a 64-bit processor was model 5S of 2013.
However, it is clear from Sensor Tower's data that the developers' approach to conversion was very lax. The biggest increase in updates can be traced back to the beginning of this year, with the closer to the final release of iOS 11, the more apps are converted. Data from App Intelligence suggests that conversion rates jumped more than fivefold during the summer months compared to the same period last year (see figure below). This trend can be expected to continue at least until the release of iOS 11. Once users install the new system, 32-bit applications will no longer run.
Speaking of rough numbers, over the past year, developers have managed to convert more than 64 applications to 1900-bit architecture. However, if we compare this number with the figure from last year, when Sensor Tower estimated that there were almost 187 thousand applications incompatible with iOS 11 in the App Store, it is not such a great result. It is very likely that a huge part of these applications are already forgotten or their development has been completed. Even so, it will be interesting to see what popular applications (especially those that we can label as "niche") will no longer be used. Hopefully there will be as few as possible.
The conclusion speaks to me, I use quite a few applications, for which iOS reports from time to time after launch that it is necessary to update them :-/ This will be a rather harsh fall for me, Mozilla will cut the XUL extension and Apple will cut a number of applications.
I have one favorite application that I bought relatively recently for a few tens of crowns. Its last update was in 2013, and iOS has been roaring for quite some time. I hope they don't screw it up...
Which? I have had Dictionary CZ-EN since my first iPhone. It's primitive open source, no one has touched the app in 7 years, yet it's the best dictionary I know. And it also says that it cannot be run from iOS.
Hueless – app for black and white photography
I am not familiar with this dictionary, but I am extremely satisfied with the dictionary from Lingea: English-Slovak, Slovak-English big dictionary. Of course, it is also Czech-English. It is regularly updated, it will definitely work on iOS 11 as well.