Does AFNetworking 2.0 support iOS 6.0?
afnetworking, afnetworking-2, ios
Solution
Accoding to the CocoaPods podspec, you can simply use AFN 2.0 but not include the `NSURLSession` related files.
For example if you use CocoaPods (if you don't, you should really consider doing it, it's awesome!), simply use this on your Podfile to get AFN 2.0 without `NSURLSession`-related features:
pod 'AFNetworking', '~> 2.0'
This will only get the `"Core"` subspec, which supports the deployment target 6.0 for iOS (`s.ios.deployment_target = '6.0'` in the podspec) and does not integrate `NSURLSession`-related files. So this will be compatible with your project using an iOS6 or greater deployment target.
If you later wish to drop the 6.0 support on your project and take advantage of the `NSURLSession` capabilities, you can add the `NSURLSession` subspec to your `Podfile`:
pod 'AFNetworking', '~> 2.0' # Core, without NSURLSession, compatible with iOS6
pod 'AFNetworking/NSURLSession', '~> 2.0' # Add NSURLSession features, only compatible with iOS7
You can see in the `podspec` that adding the `NSURLSession` subspec will add the `s.ios.deployment_target = '7.0'` requirement as a consequence, requiring your project's deployment target to be 7.0 or greater too of course, as you could expect.
[EDIT] Since my answer, Mattt updated its code and podspec so that you can get the `NSURLSession` subspec even when targeting iOS6. See this pull request on its github (and other ones related). So now you can get the `NSURLSession` subspec even for you iOS6-min projects, and just conditionally call them at runtime only `if ([NSURLSession class])` is true.
Problem
AFNetworking 2.0 was announced last week. But I find different requirements for AFNetworking 2.0. README.md tells it requires either iOS 7.0 and above, while AFNetworking 2.0 Migration Guide tells it requires either iOS 6.0 and above. Dose AFNetworking 2.0 support iOS 6.0?