iPhone Dev Center introduced iPhone SDK 3.0 beta on last 31st March 2009. All the features that we were waiting for are now available in it.
Key features are as follow:
* Apple Push Notification Service. This will provides a way to alert your users of new information, even when your application is not actively running.
* Cut, copy and paste. Now you can include cut, copy and paste feature in UITextView, UITextField and UIWebview.
* Accessory Support. ExternalAccessory.framework is included using that we can provides support for communicating with hardware accessories attached to an iPhone or iPod touch device.
* In App Purchase Support. Storekit.framework is inclued to provides a means for you to make additional content and services available from within your iPhone applications.
* Peer to Peer Support. Gamekit.framework is introduced to add peer to peer network in our application.
* Map API. MapKit.framework is also added to provide map interface in our application.
* Several new classes and protocols are added in MediaPlayer.framework using this we can access iPod library.
* AVFoundatation.framework also includes some new classes and protocols for audio management.
* CoreData framework is also having some cool feature that you will see in my next post.
* Now MessageUI framework is made as public framework so that we can use it for email composing and queuing in user’s outbox.
* Now iPhone OS 3.0 support for the playback of live video streamed over http. Streamed content can be played back on an iPhone OS–based device using the MPMoviePlayerController class.
* Safari supports the audio and video HTML elements, which allow you to embed audio and video content into your web applications.
iPhone OS 3.0 beta April 12, 2009
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