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Apple Calls for WWDC Developers, Launches iPhone SDK Beta 4

Wednesday April 23, 2008 6:58 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
Apple changed their home page today with a photo of an iPhone and MacBook Air with the title "Calling all developers", reminding visitors that early registration for the World Wide Developer's Conference ends on April 25th, 2008.

Meanwhile, Apple also quietly released the 4th beta of the iPhone SDK. Beta 4 adds at least one much requested feature: OpenGL ES support within the iPhone simulator. Previously, developers had to install directly to their iPhone to run OpenGL applications.

"The fourth beta version of the iPhone SDK includes Xcode IDE, iPhone simulator with Open GL ES support, Interface Builder, Instruments, frameworks and samples, compilers, and Shark analysis tool."

Developers are continuing to work on iPhone/Touch apps and games to ready for the June launch of the iTunes App Store.
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tacoman667
50 months ago
"Beta release 4: The fourth beta adds support for Open GL ES within the iPhone
Simulator, rendering 3D graphics in the Simulator that mirror behavior on the iPhone
and iPod touch. There are new iPhone OS templates in the New Project and New
Target assistants. Code signing is now enforced on devices. See the "Known Issues"
section below for details."

Yay!
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MDMstudios
50 months ago
Downloading it right now but my internet is going really slow right now 90 kbs : /
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himansk
50 months ago
wooohooo
downloading as well. its slow, beta1 downloaded at over 1MBps for me, this time its just 150KBps :(

Edit:
It has AppStore, doesnt connect though
Itunes store now present as well
Show my caller ID added to Preferences->Phone
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atlandrew
50 months ago
Something tells me they took something out....dmg is 200MB smaller!! We'll see.

p.s. When will I be able to test my app on my phone!?!? :confused:
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NoAverageJoe
50 months ago

Something tells me they took something out....dmg is 200MB smaller!! We'll see.

p.s. When will I be able to test my app on my phone!?!? :confused:


Not until you get selected as a beta developer...or the end of June, whichever comes first. :rolleyes:

Very cool that you can now run the OpenGL apps on the simulator.
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actorkid
50 months ago
the picture on apple's website looks weird....the picture of the iphone is all distorted...it looks short and fat
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stanleybostitch
50 months ago
On first glance, I thought the image was off as well, but with a much larger version of the air in the background...can't wait for June to get here.
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bytethese
50 months ago
Man, I should get my butt in gear and start coding some apps!!
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yayaba
50 months ago
So does this finally fix the -10810 errors? Surprisingly, I had no time at all lately to work on my iPhone app ever since Beta 3 came out but I read that some people still had that error come up once in awhile.
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avigalante
50 months ago
Why does the "calling all developers" tag line remind me of... "DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS!!!!!"

If you don't know what I am talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaJREvJW72g

This video always cracks me up - LOL
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