WWDC 2012 Session Videos

https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2012/

by abijlani • 14 years ago

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donmcc• 14 years ago

Always a good source for iOS devs. A (free) Apple developer account is required. Previous years are also available.

jasonlotito• 14 years ago

And there goes my free time.

filmgirlcw• 14 years ago

So much good stuff here. I was sad I wasn't able to go last week but the content, as always, is great.

HorizonXP4• 14 years ago

So to view these videos, I need to be running Safari for the streaming version, or have iTunes installed to download the videos?

Can someone explain what's the benefit of doing it that way? I'm on Windows (Ubuntu also, in a VM) running Chrome. Sure, I could install Safari or iTunes, but why do I have to? (And don't say "So you can watch the videos.")

hboon3• 14 years ago

Chances are, most developers they are targeting are on Macs, so they made it easy for them.

HorizonXP4• 14 years ago

Oh I figured as much, and it does make sense. But I'm unclear as to what types of streaming video Safari supports that Chrome doesn't.

Maascamp• 14 years ago

On the other hand, chances are that most of those developers still aren't running Safari.

batista4• 14 years ago

>Can someone explain what's the benefit of doing it that way?

Keeping out the riff raff? Those videos are targeted at Mac developers, not people having issues with Safari and/or iTunes.

>I'm on Windows (Ubuntu also, in a VM) running Chrome. Sure, I could install Safari or iTunes, but why do I have to?

Just because those are the prerequisites Apple made for watching them.

That said, I think you can also watch them without Safari for streaming (you just need Quicktime IIRC), but downloading them needs iTunes.

DeepDuh2• 14 years ago

Does anyone else have problems with the sound? I've had two videos stop the sound at some point while the slides still continue. Reloading doesn't seem to help, it still stops at the same point.

edit: Nevermind, I think it was my SSD running out of space. Still waiting for that damn retina macbook ;).

zaphoyd• 14 years ago

I had this issue as well with the web streaming versions and plenty of free disk space. I ended up just pulling them up in iTunes which downloaded the whole thing and then it played fine. Something to do with the adaptive HTTP streaming I would guess.

DeepDuh2• 14 years ago

Oh ok, so it wasn't just my SSD then. Something fishy going on with that streaming, it's so proprietary that it needs Safari AND Lion..

angerman• 14 years ago

Any recommendations for what sessions to watch first? What are the most substantial new features, one should pay close attention to with respect to iOS?

carson• 14 years ago

The videos for sessions 205 and 219 would probably be the first two I would recommend if you are an iOS developer.

The videos for sessions 600 and 601 would be good if you are developing web apps.

MartinMond• 14 years ago

Downloading WWDC 2012 sessions 202, 205, 208, 211, 216, 219, 236 and 712 as of this writing. Any others I should get?

st3fan• 14 years ago

Wow! That was quick! I love it! So happy that they did this a week after WWDC.

jfoutz• 14 years ago

I bet you a nickel google will live stream IO next week.

mattbirchler• 14 years ago

Do they stream the sessions as well? I know they do the keynote but it would be really impressive if they streamed the whole darn thing.

Bjoern2• 14 years ago

Why is this site forcing me to register? Is my personal information so nice to have? sign

Karunamon2• 14 years ago

Oh for pete's sake it's an Apple developer account. Microsoft, Google, and every other dev platform that matters has the same requirement.

Can we please stop with the "zOMG my data!!1" whenever someone asks for a registration?

Bjoern2• 14 years ago

Neither have any of those. Just because everybody does it (require registration), does not automatically make it good and ok. Sorry, you can downvote me if you like.

oemera• 14 years ago

Apple developers need to sign a NDA with the creation of an developer account. These videos are under NDA cause it is beta software and confidential. This is the reason why you need an account to watch those videos.

BUT even if they weren't under NDA this is totally ok! Going to the conference would have cost you minimum 1 week time and >1500$. You get all of this for free after only four days the conference happened. The only thing they ask for is an account and you are complaining about this? I will never understand such attitude!

batista4• 14 years ago

Yes, this site and a MILLION others on the internets...

Including this very site.

5teev• 14 years ago

Note: they've included sample code even for non-attendees, something that was not done for WWDC 2011.

yardie• 14 years ago

I have the sample code for 2010 and 2011. 2010 was neatly packaged up in one big zip file. The 2011 samples are mixed in with the rest of the Library sample code. But you can tell what was used at WWDC because the timestamp will be updated to June.

m_st3• 14 years ago

Wow they're quick. Does anybody else have issues downloading them via iTunes? I'm on Windows here at work and as soon as the download finishes it is deleted, nowhere to be found on disk or iTunes. The machine is even activated in the iTunes store. Guess I'll have to keep streaming until I can download them tonight on my Mac...

taligent• 14 years ago

They should be stored under iTunes U. Do you have that enabled under Preferences ?

m_st3• 14 years ago

Yes I do. I also see the videos I added from the store in iTunes U. They all have the "get" button. When I click it the video is downloaded. Once the download finishes however, the "get" button reappears and that's it. The Video also isn't in the iTunes folder on disk...

EDIT: Nevermind, I watched the videos on the iPad and will download the others tonight on my iMac.

m_st3• 14 years ago

Now I know why they've been this fast: The other years you always got to see the presenter, this year you just see the slides and get the audio. So they simply had to join the audio source with the slides. Works fine though and having them earlier is certainly nice.

jonhendry• 14 years ago

For the last few years, at least, the 'kickoff' overview videos include the presenters, while most (all?) of the session videos are just the slides and audio.

kenferry• 14 years ago

For several years at least, only the biggest room, Presidio, has had actual video cameras. I think this is the first year that they didn't use the video cameras even in that room, though.

pohl• 14 years ago

The user experience of watching WWDC session videos on the iPad has always been a thorn in my side.

Back when the 2011 videos were new, I downloaded them all to my computer (in Standard Definition) and synced them all to my iPad so that I would have immediate offline access to them all should I find myself with a free hour to spend.

Sadly, the Videos application has one horrible UX problem: the names of each session video was very long, but the label in Videos is too short, and so they all endup being truncated, like "Session 205 - Introducing Collection Vi...". Even in landscape, mind you! Half of the screen was wasted with a graphic that added no useful information.

Halfway through the year, things got a lot better when the "iTunes U" app was released, and browsing the 2011 videos immediately became much better. The Videos app still has the same usability issue (and I think they should still fix it), but the iTunes U app is better so at least I can avoid the bad app.

Well, last night I downloaded the 2012 session videos and synced them over to my iPad, and now iTunes U has a horrible UX, because the videos from 2011 and 2012 are all mixed in the same list, and there's no way to tell from the session title which year it came from.

It's as if no one at Apple dogfoods their own applications with their own content.

Edit: just to be clear, none of my complaint here is about iTunes or the iTunes store. Those applications (though I admit the former is a bloated dumping-ground of features) have always behaved perfectly for me. Rather, I'm specifically refering to the "iTunes U" mobile app (see link below) and the "Videos" app that is bundled on the iPad.

http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/

robomartin• 14 years ago

I've always found iTunes and iTunes Store UI's to be deficient in many ways. My theory is that the continuous overloading of iTunes with a wide range of functionalities is creating a mess. What makes sense for music files doesn't necessarily make sense for videos, books or apps.

Searching the iTunes store is horrible, particularly on an iPad or iPhone. More often than not it is easier to use Google on a browser to search the iTunes store.

Importing content into iTunes is equally fraught with issues. I had to import a library of hundreds of music CDs from Windows Media. Thousands of songs. iTunes refused to maintain the grouping of songs per album (as they show-up in Windows Media) and required manually editing and sorting of thousands of songs in order to clean-up the mess. I understand that it has to do with metadata issues, but if MS can do it iTunes ought to be far more intelligent and do it right and offer to auto-magically fix the issues during import.

This is very similar to what happened with XCode 4. Before XC4 browsing documentation was a good experience. Now they chose to overload the iTunes-ish Organizer with all manner of things, including documentation. Now browsing the docs is ugly and difficult. It sucks.

What I'd like to see is for iTunes to return to being the best app for managing your music while new specialized apps are introduced to manage your iPhone and other content.

DaveJewell• 14 years ago

Totally agree with all you say. The current philosophy of just adding more and more disjoint functionality to existing apps is simply creating one hell of a mess. A mess to use, and (I strongly suspect) a mess to maintain.

Remember the old UNIX philosophy: Write programs that do ONE thing and do it well. Whoever is in charge of overall software development at Apple (both apps and dev tools) needs to have this drummed into him. Preferably with a large hammer. ;-)

egb• 14 years ago

Try this link to see all the developer videos available in iTunes (you have to be logged in to apple dev first) in order to have a choice of HD or SD for big or small video sizes:

https://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/BrowsePrivately...

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