Filed under: Developer, iPhone
iPhone SDK beta 2 now hitting the streets
After a brief false alarm earlier today, it looks like beta 2 of Xcode 3.1 (including the iPhone-ready version of Interface Builder) is actually released. A word of warning: Apple's servers are getting hammered right now, and it may pay to wait a while before downloading the 2.1 GB package.While you wait, you can peruse the release notes for Xcode and for Interface Builder. Never hurts to read the documentation. Have a good weekend, all you iPhone coders!
P.S. One of our loyal tipsters, PJ, noted that he sent us an email about 36 hours ago with his surmise (based on a link he saw, behind the Apple developer site login wall, to a Beta 1 -> Beta 2 diffs manifest) that the revised iPhone SDK might be imminent. PJ, for the record, you guessed right.
Thanks Nik + PJ
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
abhi said 3:13PM on 3-27-2008
excellent! interfacebuilder here i come.
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Yorgle said 3:15PM on 3-27-2008
Any word yet if it supports video out? (either playing media files or generating live content for the video output port)
'cause that would open up music visualization or playing games to your TV directly from the iPhone...
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Dave Wood said 3:18PM on 3-27-2008
torrent of the file anyone?
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Jacques Lema said 4:03PM on 3-27-2008
Not necessary today. It seems to be downloading fine (unlike the first time where I was indeed saved by a torrent).
raymondsar said 3:21PM on 3-27-2008
I'm d/l the SDK right now just fine at 1.5 Mbps. Apple has definitely learned their lesson from the last time!
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Alex said 3:27PM on 3-27-2008
No, I think there's just much less demand this time around. It's also not as publicized.
I bet about three quarters of the people that downloaded the SDK initially did nothing with it.
raymondsar said 3:40PM on 3-27-2008
agreed!
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Anon said 3:47PM on 3-27-2008
Tell Erica I submitted another screenshot.
New iPhone firmware as well.
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Chuck said 4:17PM on 3-27-2008
Yep, new firmware. I'm downloading it right now. With any luck it fixes some of the issues I had with exchange (like duplicate contacts on the iPhone but not the exchange server) and the sluggishness of the contacts scrolling. I'll be very happy if it does.
Jarques said 4:12PM on 3-27-2008
Group contacts?
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Chuck said 4:18PM on 3-27-2008
Been there since the first beta. Also, multiple calendar support has been there since the first one as well.
Something I just noticed is that this is actually labeled 2.0 and not 1.2 anymore (at least from the firmware in XCode).
Jeff Clark said 4:31PM on 3-27-2008
Both are already in 1.1.4.
Just setup groups and multiple calendars in Address Book or iCal...
mdk said 4:56PM on 3-27-2008
is the phone-part working in newest 2.0FW-beta?
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Anon said 5:03PM on 3-27-2008
I have noticed that there is a separate Contacts "app" now.
I just wish they would let SecureRSA tokens be used with the Cisco client and real 802.1x support.
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Keith Duncan said 7:12PM on 3-27-2008
File a bug report, they need to know what we need.
p2rjade said 5:05PM on 3-27-2008
Why would my download say 1.36GB (build 9A2151). The version from March 5th says 2.1GB. Weird.....
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kornhornio said 6:27PM on 3-27-2008
The new simulator accepts keyboard input. I'm pretty sure I remember having to point-and-click the virtual keyboard in the first beta.
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tuaw reader said 7:03PM on 3-27-2008
I was able to utilize the keyboard for input into the soft keyboard in the simulator in the first beta.
looking forward to downloading this tonight and trying out my builds.
GuyC said 6:37PM on 3-27-2008
This version does not seem to work any more on ppc.
Applied the method as listed on 3by9.com/85/ now with iphone* instead of Aspen* packages to install and copy. However, building the samples gives an error saying 'no compile architecture for (ARCHS=ppc,VALID_ARCHS=i386).
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Anon said 7:13PM on 3-27-2008
GuyC: The last version produced a warning like that. Are you saying this is an actual error, that keeps you from completing the build and deploying to the emulator?