Check iOS version at runtime?

Question

This is sort of a follow on from my last question. I am using beginAnimations:context: to setup an animation block to animate some UITextLabels. However I notic

Answer 1

Discouraged is not the same as deprecated.

If you need to support earlier versions of iOS that do not have the block based methods, there is nothing wrong with using the older methods (as long as they haven't been removed, of course).