[agashka]

What does that mean for third party applications? Like those built using Adobe Air, which as far as I'm concerned, does not use Xcode. Will an application that complies with the iOS 7 guideline be rejected just because it was not compiled under Xcode?

[ryanpetrich]

These tools will have to be updated to emit binaries with load commands that link against iOS 7 versions of UIKit in order to be in compliance. This is similar to the regulation change in March 2013 that mandated support for iPhone 5's larger display dimensions.