14 DAY TRIAL // Apple has signaled to iPhone developers that iOS 4 apps are now being accepted in the iTunes App Store. The company announced iPhone 4 at its annual WWDC event earlier this week, confirming June 24 as the product’s public release date. Apple now needs iOS 4 apps to get users started with the device as the first units ship out to customers.
“Submit Your iOS 4 App Today,” an announcement over at the iPhone Dev Center on Apple’s website reads. “Log in to iTunes Connect and submit your iOS 4 application now, so it will be ready for sale when iOS 4 is available to iPhone and iPod touch users,” the company reveals under the News and Announcements section for iPhone developers. “Make sure you have built and tested your app using iOS 4 and iPhone SDK 4 GM seed available from the iPhone Dev Center,” Apple adds.
Programmers still stuck on older development software and iPhone OS 4 betas can now visit the iPhone Dev Center to download the new tools. Following the WWDC10 keynote address, Apple started notifying people enrolled with its Developer Program that several new downloads were available from the iPhone Dev Center on the company’s website. One of them is the iOS 4 GM (Golden Master) seed, a pre-release version of Apple’s next-gen operating system, which is to be installed and used with the purpose of developing applications for iOS 4.
Additional downloads include the iPhone SDK 4 GM seed, iAd JS, and iTunes 9.2, the upcoming version of Apple’s proprietary digital media player application used for playing and organizing digital music and video files, as well as for browsing and buying content from the iTunes Store. The last one adds the ability to sync with iPhone 4, organize and sync PDF documents as books, read PDFs with iBooks 1.1 on iPad and any iPhone or iPod touch with iPhone OS 4, organize apps on iPhone OS 4 home screens into folders using iTunes, and more.