As the title suggested, iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 5 (Build: 10M2148) is available for download. We’ll report back if we find anything.
Apple is sticking to the 2 week schedule and has released iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta version 4 for the iPad. Following the trend, developers will have 2-3 more revisions to the iPhone SDK 3.2 before the iPad launch.
More details to come.
Update: Through some digging, 9to5Mac has found that there are some new gestures coming to the iPad/iPhone and Apple has removed references to video call/chat.
Penguin Group CEO John Makinson revealed some of the company’s forthcoming titles that’s coming to the iPad at the FT Digital Media & Broadcasting Conference in London yesterday [paidContent:UK].
“We will be embedding audio, video and streaming in to everything we do. The .epub format, which is the standard for ebooks at the present, is designed to support traditional narrative text, but not this cool stuff that we’re now talking about.”
As shown in the video below, the “books” resemble more like applications than traditional e-books, just what we would imagine books to be on the iPad, “very interactive learning experiences.” In fact, Makinson says that most of the “books” will be sold through the App Store as opposed to the iBooks Store.
“So for the time being at least we’ll be creating a lot of our content as applications, for sale on app stores and HTML, rather than in ebooks. The definition of the book itself is up for grabs.”
When asked about the 30/70 Split with Publishers, Makinson replied with, “this is better than the equivalent print agency model, in which publishers let retailers keep 50 percent.”
Apple today released the 3rd update to the iPhone SDK 3.2 for developers to build and test the new iPad apps.
What new tidbits or changes might we dig up this time? We’ll have more information on Beta 3 as details roll in.
From the first 2 beta updates:
Closer look at iPad Safari (Video)
iPad Emulator Reveals File Sharing, YouTube HTML5 and more
Update: Apple just pulled Beta 3 because of a major bug.
Update #2: iPad Photos App added to Beta 3.
Update #3: Camera Tab found in Photos App.
Though very limited, one of the things you can do with the iPad SDK 3.2 is checking out its Safari web browser.
The geeky folks at 9-to-5Mac posted a video walkthrough of iPad Safari via the iPad simulator. The iPad is arguably a hybrid between an iPhone/iPod Touch and a MacBook, and the same thing goes for the refreshed Safari. When you pop open Safari on the iPad, you are presented with a fully functioning web browser that looks like something you’d find on a traditional computer.
As expected, Flash is not supported. You access the tabs in the tabs window, which has a bit of resemblance to the ‘top sites’ page from the full Safari. Another new feature in the iPad Safari is the “Replace” option when highlighting a word, offering a more advance spelling correction.
