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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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baquiano

re: Spiced Ham

You rock! Thanks for the info.

After spending thousands of dollars on Apple hardware and developing software for their different OS's for the past 9 years, it's only fair that this can work on PPC.

May 30 2008 at 1:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
thenry

I followed the (below) advice from Spiced Ham, and it does build.
But it still gives the error:
"This application cannot be run in the iPhone Simulator. Please change Active SDK to "Device" and ensure a device is connected."

Any suggestions?
Thanks

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Add PPC to: /Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Library/Xcode/Specifications/iPhone Simulator Architectures.xcspec

Name = "Standard (iPhone Simulator: i386 ppc)";

and line 16 to read:

RealArchitectures = ( i386, ppc );

Then add the following before the last line:

// PowerPC
{ Type = Architecture;
Identifier = ppc;
Name = "PowerPC";
Description = "32-bit PowerPC";
PerArchBuildSettingName = "PowerPC";
ByteOrder = big;
ListInEnum = NO;
SortNumber = 106;
},

April 01 2008 at 12:07 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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thenry

So, actually, this did all work. I was running into the limitation of simulating OpenGL-ES. Non OpenGL applications seem to build and simulate fine on PPC. Thanks for the tips.

April 01 2008 at 11:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chuck

Well I've been playing with the new firmware version and while it has fixed quite a few bugs, there are still some annoying (and some new) bugs. I still get two of every contact when I use an exchange server and the contacts crash all the time with the exchange server. Plus if you have a change server set up you can't set the check time for the rest of your email accounts unless you delete the exchange account, set the check time, then re-add the exchange account. Couple of annoying bugs. Though the rest of the firmware seems to run a lot better so it's a step in the right direction.

March 28 2008 at 8:23 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
imode

anyone able to get Interface Builder running? The iPhone template doesn't seem to generate a NIB file.

March 28 2008 at 12:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Rory

Be warned the new SDK seems to break the Build & Go function in Xcode!

March 27 2008 at 7:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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kornhornio

The new simulator accepts keyboard input. I'm pretty sure I remember having to point-and-click the virtual keyboard in the first beta.

March 27 2008 at 6:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Ket

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.

March 27 2008 at 7:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
GuyC

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).

March 27 2008 at 6:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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p2rjade

Why would my download say 1.36GB (build 9A2151). The version from March 5th says 2.1GB. Weird.....

March 27 2008 at 5:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Anon

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.

March 27 2008 at 4:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Keith Duncan

File a bug report, they need to know what we need.

March 27 2008 at 7:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
MDK

is the phone-part working in newest 2.0FW-beta?

March 27 2008 at 4:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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