The iPhone Developers Toolkit

March 19th, 2008 at 4:43 pm (Apple, iPhone)

Well, as many of you know, Apple released the iPhone SDK to the community earlier this month. I would say the documentation is quite good. However, only a select few have been able to actually sign up for the beta program. For those of you who feel rejected or left out, there is still hope!

I received my “rejection letter” (that most of you received) the day after the Keynote address and haven’t heard from Apple until yesterday. They sent me a simple email thanking me for my application and included an activation code link. That link opened up to a special portal in the Apple Store which allowed me to purchase the Standard Program for $99+tax, as shown below…

Standard Program receipt

Oddly enough I was unable to change the shipping method, so who knows what I’ll be getting in the mail by the end of the week. Anyways, a few hours later I received another email asking me to activate my membership to the program, as well as a courtesy call from someone at Apple!

Due to some valid concerns, I have removed the screenshots and documents outlying some of the features of the beta 2.0 release. However, you can read more about it in Erica’s blog: [linky]

Needless to say, there is obviously the new iPhone 2.0 (5A147) beta OS software available for download, more documentation describing the ability to transfer your built apps to your iPhone for testing (as opposed to just using the built-in emulator), and other pertinent information regarding the digital certificate licensing, etc. I will not have any downloads of the beta software available, so please don’t ask!

Photo of the iPhone Beta 2.0 software

There are also quite a few disclaimers dealing with actually using the 2.0 beta software (regarding AT&T and such), but I won’t go into too many details there. There doesn’t appear to be an extra sample code from Apple compared to what is freely available to everyone.

15 Comments »

  1. Details from an accepted iPhone dev program member (with screenshots) - iPhone Atlas resta suma said,

    March 19th, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    […] posted a series of Apple documents, explaining the program, to his blog. Among the salient […]

  2. No one resta suma said,

    March 19th, 2008 at 2:42 pm

    Can you say “cease & desist”? I know I can!

  3. hact resta suma said,

    March 19th, 2008 at 3:08 pm

    When it says “may only be used for development” does that mean that the phone functions are disabled and you can’t make/receive calls?

  4. Sw Mirage resta suma said,

    March 19th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    So, just to satisfy my curiosity: did you receive a so-called “rejection” letter, and then received an “accepted” letter? Could you update the blog entry with the answer to this question? Thanks!

  5. Sw Mirage resta suma said,

    March 19th, 2008 at 4:08 pm

    And thanks for the documentation, quite interesting. I believe that as an iPhone dev, you get access to some movies and example code that others don’t. :-) Anything else you can post would be most welcome by everybody, I bet.

  6. Ashu resta suma said,

    March 19th, 2008 at 4:59 pm

    I updated the post as per your request.

  7. pumpkin resta suma said,

    March 19th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    Ashu: I realize this might be a strange request, but do you think you could post the md5 of the ipsw for 1.2 you received? I’m curious whether they’re all identical or not.

  8. Ashu resta suma said,

    March 19th, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    MD5 (iPhone1,1_1.2_5A147p_Restore.ipsw) = 3539f0b912812fd56ac1019d8fce4fc2

  9. Sw Mirage resta suma said,

    March 19th, 2008 at 6:10 pm

    Thanks for the clarification, Ashu. Good luck with your iPhone development!

  10. pumpkin resta suma said,

    March 19th, 2008 at 7:53 pm

    Thanks a lot!

  11. Kyla Lafoon resta suma said,

    March 20th, 2008 at 10:40 am

    We hope that you use the SDK to make a cool looking application.

    PS: if you get Flash working on the iPhone tell ME! I can’t wait to try it!

    Go Adobe!

  12. .max resta suma said,

    March 21st, 2008 at 7:56 am

    I have been accepted too. But I did not receive the link yet.
    I was curious what I should get by the mail, but then I have reviewed order details and it says “Electronically Delivered. Shipping Method Not Applicable”. Obviously there is nothing to get by mail.

  13. Ashu resta suma said,

    March 21st, 2008 at 8:03 am

    Interesting… I just logged into the Apple store and checked my order status, and you are correct: it shows electronically delivered. It took about 6 hours to receive an activation link after I purchased the developer’s kit.

  14. uphi resta suma said,

    March 21st, 2008 at 7:16 pm

    No letter yet here.

  15. GameBoy resta suma said,

    April 11th, 2008 at 1:10 am

    Awesome! Ahahaha! Stop it, you’re killing me! Anyway, I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought this is great.

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