Apple has finally released their SDK today. A week behind the schedule but at least it’s here.
Along with this announcement came another one. Enterprise services are getting a huge boost by supporting the push technology, Cisco IPSec VPN, Certificates and Identities or WPA2, among others. However, the biggest one is support for Active Sync and Microsoft Exchange. These new enterprise features will be available via June’s software update (free for iPhone, paid for iPod touch) and is also available in beta for US-based businesses that qualify.
The SDK is now available for download on ADC.
The technologies used in the SDK are divided into these layers:
- Cocoa Mutlitouch
- Media
- Core Services
- Core OS
Cocoa Touch
Cocoa Touch layer lets you access technologies such as Multi-touch events, Multi-touch controls, Acceleromter, View Hierarchy, Localization, Alerts, Web View, People Picker, Image Picker or Camera
Media
This one will probably get the most attention. Especially with combination with Cocoa Touch. You get your hands on Core Audio, OpenAL, Audio Mixing, Audio Recording, Video Playback, JPG, PNG, TIFF, PDS Quartz, Core Animation and Embedded OpenGL
Core Services
Core services is more lower-level oriented and will make a lot of sense for business-like apps. It includes Collections, Address Book, Networking, File access, SQLite, Core Location, Net Services Threading, Preferences, URL utilities
Core OS
And finally, the OS layer lets you really optimize you app by talking to low-level services such as OS X Kernel, BSD TCP/IP, Sockets, Power Management, Keychain, Certificates, File System, Lib System, Security, Bonjour
Requirements and what you’ll get
You will need to have Leopard 10.2 installed on an Intel machine to use the SDK. It comes complete with enhanced Xcode and an iPhone emulator. I just downloaded it (their site is currently very slow) and will be trying it out. I will write up a post once I play with it a bit. I’m so excited, YAY!! 