Thursday, March 27, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Apple has released a new version of the iPhone SDK, this time including an updated Interface Builder for use with the SDK.Now, I can only hope that there is an updater and not the full download like there was last time, that was pretty brutal since I already have XCode installed. I did before the original SDK too...
So how many XCodes do I need to download?
Update:
Okay, well I had to download the entire SDK but it appears IB is new, and lots of XCode itself have been revamped. After a fairly lengthy install, I popped open XCode and lo'and behold, there was a screen asking me if I was doing iPhone or Macintosh development this session.
Choosing one opens up a window with related articles, code snippets, etc. pulled from the web to keep the topics and help current. I opened an older iPhone app I was working on no worries. I then launched Interface Builder... and man it has a bunch of iPhone components all with glossy nice icons.
Under the media area I guess we need to supply those ourselves as it was empty (for the iPhone anyway), but lists, list cell, all kinds of fields and bars, etc. are there.
We can create our own windows, etc. but iPhone apps don't use NIB files, right? So I wonder if it just gets rendered in code instead of using those... anyone know for sure?
I'm hitting the sheets, so I haven't tried anything real with IB yet.
You know the associations (bindings) done with dragging? That seems to have been revamped (although I hadn't touched XCode in a while until recently so that might have been in there for a while already).
Apple polished an already great SDK. They know this is serious, and it sure feels like it too. Well done.
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