iPad SDK (iPhone OS 3.2 beta) available for download

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7 points·phren0logy··11 comments

It doesn't look like it's actually available yet.

The developer page (http://developer.apple.com/iphone/) where the "Get Started" link takes you is still showing everything for the 3.1 SDK.

I'm downloading it for about an hour now.

just downloaded it, you need snow leopard :(. looks like i'll be making a trip to the store

Unless you have a PPC Mac, you could just download the Snow Leopard dmg without leaving the house :)

I saw it coming and upgraded ahead of time. :-)

Does the dmg include ipsw files? Or are we looking at developing for the Simulator only for a few weeks/months?

Nope, oddly enough it looks like iPhone OS 3.2 (in its current incarnation) is not for iPhones.

Is there any way to develop for the iphone/ipad without a Mac?

If you want to write a native objective-c cocoa touch app, you need a mac.

However Novell and Adobe have alternative solutions:

here is info on mono/iphone dev: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/01/open-source-...

here is info on flash/iphone dev: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/

You could create a hackintosh, or install mac-osx in a VM. None of these are officially endorsed solutions and I have no idea how stable these hacks are.

Oh oh, I think the NDA is back in effect. Which is still dumb.

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