IOS 4.2 For iPad, iPhone, And iPod Touch Now Available To Developers

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/15/ios-4-2-for-ipad-iphone-and-ipod-touch-now-available-to-developers/

by jasonlbaptiste • 16 years ago

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zyb09• 16 years ago

How convenient, just finished downloading the previous version of Xcode!

cmelbye• 16 years ago

That's how it always is. :(

zaveri• 16 years ago

Appears that AirPrint will only work directly with HP ePrint printers. Kind of disappointed...

st3fan• 16 years ago

Where do you get the 'only' from? I'm sure it is all standards based and that Apple wants all printer manufacturers to support this.

Also, it works with Printer Sharing on your Mac. Which will be the gateway to whatever printer you already have.

someone_here3• 16 years ago

Why not just use the standard print queues instead of inventing your own print queue standard and calling that standard?

Zev• 16 years ago

Not quite, you should read the press release[1] more closely (emphasis mine):

HP’s existing and upcoming ePrint enabled printers will be the first to support printing direct from iOS devices.

Also, if you have access to the iOS dev program, read the release notes for 4.2.

1. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/09/15airprint.html

glhaynes• 16 years ago

This guy's posting pictures: http://www.razorianfly.com/2010/09/15/breaking-ios-4-2-beta-...

Interesting that the hardware orientation lock is now "mute" (so, more like other iOS devices) and they've moved the orientation lock function — and added brightness control — to the multitasking dock.

pchristensen• 16 years ago

"added brightness control to the multitasking dock"

Hooray!! I turn the brightness all the way down when I use it late at night or early morning and this will be much easier then Home > Settings > Brightness

gamble• 16 years ago

Definitely. The iPad desperately needs this control, because brightness can only be controlled in an app using a private API reserved for iBooks.

jasonlbaptiste• 16 years ago

have it working and installed now. it's great. runs well and smooth.

wfarr2• 16 years ago

Does anyone have airplay working yet? I was kind of hoping that it'd support streaming music from iTunes to the iPad, but that doesn't appear to to be the case. =/

danudey• 16 years ago

Airplay is meant to work the other way around - from your iOS device to another device - e.g. an AppleTV, a fancy receiver, a networked TV, etc.

rbritton• 16 years ago

No sign of a SDK for it yet that I can find, unfortunately.

wfarr2• 16 years ago

I was hoping it would support both means of playback. I don't really see why it shouldn't.

For example, I have far more music on my laptop and such than I do on my iOS device, so it's significantly more convenient to stream music from iTunes to an iOS device when I'm at home (say, downstairs with my iPad) than to sync that music over manually.

xutopia• 16 years ago

I wished that Apple would release PATCHES rather than having us download the entire SDK + Xcode every single time.

kacy• 16 years ago

Once someone gets it on their iPad, can you report back with supported AirPlay apps? Does anyone know if it can be supported with say the MLB app or AirVideo?

IOS 4.2 For iPad, iPhone, And iPod Touch Now Available To Developers

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