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A simple way to detect at runtime if we're running in UIKit legacy mode or the new "flat" variant. Written for our PDF iOS SDK (http://pspdfkit.com), where the precompiled binary needs to detect at runtime in what variant it's running. Want more stuff like that? Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/steipete
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UIKitLegacyDetector.m
// Taken from http://PSPDFKit.com. This snippet is under public domain.
#define UIKitVersionNumber_iOS_7_0 0xB57
BOOL PSPDFIsUIKitFlatMode(void) {
static BOOL isUIKitFlatMode = NO;
static dispatch_once_t onceToken;
dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{
// We get the modern UIKit if system is running >= iOS 7 and we were linked with >= SDK 7.
if (kCFCoreFoundationVersionNumber >= kCFCoreFoundationVersionNumber_iOS_7_0) {
isUIKitFlatMode = (NSVersionOfLinkTimeLibrary("UIKit") >> 16) >= UIKitVersionNumber_iOS_7_0;
}
});
return isUIKitFlatMode;
}
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steipete commented Aug 5, 2016

iOS 9.3: 0xDB8
iOS 10b4: 0xE0C

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steipete commented Oct 1, 2018

For iOS 12 (GM), it seems that casting to unsigned integer is now required:

(lldb) p (int32_t)NSVersionOfLinkTimeLibrary("UIKit") >> 16
(int32_t) $4 = -4536
(lldb) p (uint32_t)NSVersionOfLinkTimeLibrary("UIKit") >> 16
(uint32_t) $5 = 61000

-> UIKitVersionNumber_iOS_12_0 = 0xEE48

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clementbarry commented Sep 30, 2021 •
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iOS 15.0 is 0x13CB

(lldb) p (uint32_t)NSVersionOfLinkTimeLibrary("UIKit") >> 16
(uint32_t) $2 = 5067

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iOS 15.2 is 0x1455


(lldb) p (uint32_t)NSVersionOfLinkTimeLibrary("UIKit") >> 16
(uint32_t) $1 = 5205

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