iPhone 3.0 SDK freely availible?

Question

In the United States, is the iPhone 3.0 SDK freely available like how the iPhone 2.x SDK was? I have an application that I wrote in Dashcode and I would like to update it to see if it solves any of the bugs.

Answer 1

Note: When reading this answer please bear in mind that I have no awareness of 'Dashcode'

You need to have an account with the iPhone dev center but you do not need to be enrolled in a paid iPhone developer program.

Answer 2

Dashcode 3.0 is included with Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6). On the DVD, there is a folder called Optional Installs which includes Xcode 3.2 (which includes Dashcode 3.0 as part of the Essentials item).

If you wrote the application with Dashcode, then it was a "Mobile Safari app". I don't think you'd need any iPhone SDK to work with that kind of an application -- since developers were developing iPhone "web apps" for a year before the SDK existed. In that case, a new iPhone SDK won't affect your application.

The new Dashcode might help though, as well as samples that highlight new cooperation between browsers and iPhone/iPod Touch hardware. For instance, check out the Safari/iPhoneOrientation sample (no login required).