The release of Beta 7 of the iPhone SDK has resulted in lot of frustrated developers. When downloading the new SDK developers were informated that they would need to re-create device provisioning profiles before they would be able to install application on their development devices. Unfortunately the profiles produced by the Apple Program Portal web [...]
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Apple we have a problem…with the beta 7 SDK
June 9th, 2008 
Richard So I downloaded the new beta 7 iPhone SDK that was released today. I updated the development environment and updated the OS on my iPod Touch. That all went very smoothly. The developer web site said that new provisioning profiles would be needed for beta 7. So I created a new profile and downloaded. The [...]
iPhone SDK Program Portal Distribution Page Updated
June 9th, 2008 Richard Since the beginning of the iPhone SDK beta the Program Portals Distribution page has been empty. With today’s announcments at WWDC and the release of iPhone SDK beta 7 these pages have been populated. The distribution page now has three tabs, Application, App Store and Ad Hoc. The Application tab gives instructions on how to [...]
iPhone SDK Beta 7 Released
June 9th, 2008 Richard The Apple iPhone Developer web site is now back up with SDK and iPhoneOS beta 7 available for download. The SDK is version 9M2199 and the OS is version 5A331. The OS weighs in at 209MB and the SDK is a mere 1.24GB The readme states that Beta release 7 fixes bugs and adds support [...]
iPhone 3G
June 9th, 2008 Richard Today at WWDC Apple announced the next generation iPhone called iPhone 3G. It is thinner, has a full black plastic back, solid metal buttons, same display, camera, flush headphone jack and better audio and GPS. The iPhone 3G has better battery life: 300 hour standby battery 10 hours 2G of talk time 5 hours 3G [...]
iPhone Push Notification Service
June 9th, 2008 Richard It was announced at the WWDC keynote that Apple will address to problem of the iPhone SDK not supporting background processes by providing a Push Notification Service. Apple argues that background processes would have cause battery and performance issues. Their solution is very scalable and only requires a single persistant connection to to the Apple [...]
Apple iPhone SDK Beta 6 Released
May 28th, 2008 Richard This one comes with a big red notice: Important Instructions Before installing and developing with the sixth beta versions of the iPhone OS and SDK, you must first upgrade your Mac system to Mac OS X v10.5.3. To upgrade your Mac, go to System Preferences and select Software Update to install the latest version. App [...]
iPhone: How jailbreaking can hurt Apple Store developers
May 12th, 2008 Richard Apple will be releasing the final version of the iPhone SDK soon. Along with it registered developers will be able to sell their applications via the Apple Store. Developers will be able to set their own pricing for their creations and Apple will take 30%. Thousands of developers have already jumped on the band wagon [...]
iPhone SDK Beta 5 Now Available
May 6th, 2008 Richard Apple has released Beta 5 of the iPhone SDK. The readme doesn’t reveal much about what is in this release: The ?fth beta ?xes bugs and adds support for the latest iPhone OS.
Exploring iPhone Graphics Part 3
May 5th, 2008 Richard Last time we created a simple iPhone application that made a ball bounce around the screen. This time we are going to extend the last example to use the accelerometer to create a gravity influence on the ball. So as you tilt the device the ball will roll in the direction of the tilt. The [...]
