Apple released information on it’s iPhone SDK on Thursday. You can sign up to be an iPhone developer on their website.
They also released info on their Microsoft exchange support for enterprise email and calendar. They are accepting applications for businesses that want to participate in their iPhone Enterprise beta program.
They now will be supporting Cisco VPN and Microsoft Activesync. Yay!
On the SDK front it features the same dev environment as Mac OSX. Including Xcode, remote debugging, remote profiling, and even an iPhone simulator.
Getting a new program up and running on the simulator is pretty easy, especially for those of you who already have experience with objective c programming.
You can download the SDK and starting messing around without needing to drop the $99 to become an official iPhone developer.
There are a few things that I think are important that I haven’t had a chance to determine yet.
Does iPhone support obj c 2.0 and garbage collection? My assumption is yes but the samples don’t seem to use garbage collection at least.
I also want to know how data files are transferred from iPhone to PC as part of sync. I.E. How can a mac app access data saved on the iPhone?
Support for all of this is coming as part of firmware 2.0 which won’t ship till June. Hope you have some patience.