Apple seeds iOS 8.0 beta 4 build 12A4331d on Monday, July 21, 2014.
Swift Blog for Apple Developer
Apple has launched Swift Blog for Apple Developer.
This new blog will bring you a behind-the-scenes look into the design of the Swift language by the engineers who created it, in addition to the latest news and hints to turn you into a productive Swift programmer.
Get started with Swift by downloading Xcode 6 beta, now available to all Registered Apple Developers for free. The Swift Resources tab has a ton of great links to videos, documentation, books, and sample code to help you become one of the world’s first Swift experts. There’s never been a better time to get coding!
– The Swift Team
Previously Xcode 6 beta was available only to paying Developers.
iOS 8 beta 2
Apple seeds iOS 8 beta 2 build 12A4297e to developers on Tuesday, June 17, 2014.
This build seems to be a lot more stable than the first iOS 8 beta which crashed at least three times within the first hour. iOS 8 beta 2 seems to be stable enough that I told my colleagues they could install it if they would.
I installed iOS 8 beta on an iPhone 5s and iPad Air instead of on older devices; they are the only 64-bit iPhone and iPad I have. Apple is going full on 64-bit with the upcoming iOS devices.
I noticed that my iPad Air rings whenever my iPhone 5s rings. It seems that phone call handoff is working between the two devices. Overall, I’m really excited with iOS 8.
OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 2
Apple seeds OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 2 build 14A261i on Tuesday, June 17, 2014.
The first OS X Yosemite Developer Preview was too buggy for my 2010 MacBook Pro. The font doesn’t look right and I suspected that it was designed to look best on Retina Display. The support for NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M was pretty abysmal.
I have not had enough time using OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 2 to find out if it’s going to run well on older Macs. Time will tell.
So You want to install OS X Yosemite Beta
Anyone can join the OS X Beta Program and download OS X Yosemite 10.10 Developer Preview. The truth is that the current Developer Preview build is definitely not for you.
Why?
There are still tons of issues with this particular build. A lot of visual tweaks needed.
Should you still insist on installing OS X Yosemite 10.10 Developer Preview, do yourself a favor by installing it on a different drive than you working drive.
In four weeks we should see a much better build of OS X Yosemite Developer Preview.
Apple seeds iOS 7.1 beta 4
Should you be following the two-week release schedule between iOS beta builds, you could be telling people that iOS 7.1 beta 4 would be released on Tuesday, January 21, 2014. You could easily made up a “trusted source within Apple” who told you such news. Then again, Apple could easily release iOS 7.1 beta 4 one day earlier than the expected date.
Anyway, Apple indeed seeded iOS 7 beta 4 build 11D5134c on Monday, January 20, 2014; one day earlier than what some people expected and reported as news.
It seems the awesomeness of “Disable Background App Refresh” visual design is not a priority to change.
Should Apple follow the two-week release schedule between iOS beta builds, expect iOS 7.1 beta 5 sometimes around February 3 or 4, 2014.
Apple Seeds the Third OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 to Developers
As many sites has reported, with no regards to Apple Developer NDA, the third OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 seed with build number 13C39 has been released.
The 621 MB update is delivered through Mac App Store Software Update.
