Facebook 3.0 for iPhone is out now – and looking good (despite no push ! :( ), but due to caching won’t push out as an update yet.
To download it, uninstall the Facebook App and redownload from the AppStore, whatever it says, it will download the new version.
I realise that the 3.0 Beta was a development Beta; intended for use to test out the iPhone SDK 3.0 and aid in development. However, I am an Apple iPhone developper, I am also an iPhone user. I have one iPhone. This means that I test on my day-to-day phone so I would appreciate that it still remains usable in this capacity with the software I’m asked to install on it.
3.0 is great. It’s a considerable step forward, there are lots of wonderful new features (I’m not going to document them; google iPhone 3.0 beta walkthrough ), instead I’m going to focus on the issues in these features, what I think they’re going to fix, and what they’re in danger of leaving in place!
Copy and Paste: Wonderful feature that’s been missing for a *very* long time. The implimentation is excellent, except that it activates far too often. For example single clicking almost anywhere in the SMS text box will invoke the Select, Select All, Paste bar. It’s often broken in safari and seems to cause you to loose the ability to move the cursor using the single finger hold in multi-line text boxes. continue reading…
After installing the iPhone 3.0 Beta you’ll find that you’re unable to sync your iPhone without having your iPhone’s UDID listed on an Apple Developer Connection account. The only problem is, if your UDID wasn’t previously listed, there’s no obvious way to find it with the 3.0 Beta software installed on your iPhone.
On OS X you can use XCODE’s iPhone browser window to get the UDID. On Window’s it almost as easy:
Windows XP: Browse to C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Apple Computer\Lockdown
Windows Vista: Browse to C:\Users\%username%\AppData\roaming\Apple Computer\Lockdown
The file found in that folder is entitled with your UDID. Enjoy 3.0 :D
Chris
Update: This can be found on OS X in the following directory: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backups
Currently the HTTP servers over at Apple Dev are overloaded however going in over HTTPS is fine.
Change the http:// at the beginning to https:// and the pages will load and provided you have an Apple Developer Membership you can d/l the SDK / Beta :)
so…. https://developer.apple.com/iphone/
Chris
update: this is now going a little slowly too!
update: ‘humbertog’ just posted on Twitter: “By installing iPhone 3.0 beta on your Test Devices, these devices are permanently “locked” into testing mode and cannot be restored!”
Does anyone know if this is true?!
