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iPhone OS 2.1 and SDK 2.1

by Scott McNulty Jul 25th 2008 at 9:30AM

Attention iPhone developers: get ye to Apple's iPhone Dev Center. Apple released the image for the iPhone OS 2.1 and SDK 2.1 last night. You must be registered to get at these files, which means that you have to agree to an NDA (First rule of iPhone development: don't talk about iPhone development), though for those curious registering for Apple's dev center is free (as noted below, the free account won't get you access to these files).

According to numerous tipsters this .1 release includes the beginnings of the iPhone notification services as well as some improvements in the location awareness area. iPhone users, this is an advanced release of the software so that devs and make sure their apps work, and start whipping up new apps. This won't be available for phone in the wild until some later date (that only Steve and his hairdresser know for sure).

One thing to note: apps created using this SDK/OS combination cannot be sold on the App Store at this time, so I hope you have an extra iPhone or iPod touch laying around.

Update: I was mistaken, this new files aren't available via the free Apple Dev accounts. You have to have a paid membership to get them (though I would imagine they will trickle down to the freebie accounts at some point in the near future), and be a registered iPhone developer.

Update 2: Some folks in the comments are saying they are paid, registered developers and they can't see these files so your mileage may vary.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in.

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Allister

Can you please re-read your articles when you edit them!? It took me twice as long to read this as it should have and I'm still not sure what you mean in half of it.

July 25 2008 at 8:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nick

I'm probably in the minority, but I'd love to see support added for Lotus Notes. It would make my life a lot easier.

Our company is currently evaluating the iPhone, but not having Lotus Notes support is a bit of a problem. We're looking at third party solutions, and even considering an Exchange deployment.

July 25 2008 at 3:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mike malto

i'm a paying, $99, non-corporate developer, that can see the files, but every time i click on them, i get a message saying that my session has timed out and that i must reconnect to the ADC site. not sure what's up. anyone else having this issue? i'm just an online ADC member.

July 25 2008 at 2:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
iPhoneGuy

I'm a paid developer and I have downloaded both the SDK and the new iPhone 2.1 OS.

However, neither iTunes (7.7) nor the new XCODE seem to be able to put the OS onto my 3G iPhone.

iTunes gives me an "error 5" and XCODE says "Hardware Not Supported".

At that point my iPhone is bricked - but I can successfully reload 2.0 and unbrick.

July 25 2008 at 2:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Crash Gordon

The new beta releases are currently only available to those that were accepted before July 11th.

"As a participant in the iPhone Developer Program during the beta period, we are
pleased to offer you continued access to new, pre-release versions of the iPhone OS
and SDK."

I hope that doesn't overstep my NDA boundaries.

July 25 2008 at 2:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
3 replies to Crash Gordon's comment
Mike Puchol

This is my scenario:

- Paid developer account, registered to a company name (but NOT as a corporate developer, i.e. the $99 version), and with an ADC subscription, DOES have access to 2.1.

- Paid developer account, registered to myself, without an ADC subscription, DOES NOT have access to 2.1.

The only two differences are company versus individual, and ADC versus no ADC.

July 25 2008 at 2:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ian Klier

I think this may only be available to those developers with both the iPhone Developer account and ADC Select/Premier.

July 25 2008 at 1:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
2 replies to Ian Klier's comment
Roger

I can refute that. I'm a Select and iPhone member, and I don't have access to 2.1. It just appears to be more of the same unexplained gaming of the iPhone community that Apple has done since the SDK was first announced.

I like developing for Apple, but they're making it hard to continue doing so lately.

July 25 2008 at 1:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ardnaz

I am not a AD premiere member, but I am a iPhone dev member of the 99.00 type and I also got the download available.

I did read somewhere that you had to be a iPhone dev member before July 11th or something like that. So I guess little by little they are allowing most developers access

July 25 2008 at 1:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
macxprt

I have the regualr free developer account and the version I am downloading right now is build 9M2199a. The .dmg filename is iphone_sdk_final.dmg. i downloaded one last week and the filename was iphone_sdk__5a345.dmg

July 25 2008 at 12:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Roger

5a345 was beta 8 - you shouldn't have still been able to download that last week. 9M2199a is the final 2.0 release version, not 2.1.

July 25 2008 at 1:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris Born

We are good. 2.1 is there when I login and I can't wait to start using the notification stuff for web based multiplayer in BattleAtSea and Five Dice.
http://www.peltedsoftware.com/

I do agree that they should get a bug fix out quick to everyone else though. Some of the OS bugs are reeking havoc everywhere.

July 25 2008 at 11:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jeff

Same story: Paid registered developer who can't see the new SDK.

July 25 2008 at 11:14 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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