Development Archives

STC Finally Enables Personal Hotspot on the iPad

STC has released a carrier update that finally enables the personal hotspot function on the iPad (third and fourth gen) and iPad mini. iPads with an STC data SIM had the personal h ...

Apple Officially Registered Its Trademark in Saudi Arabia

Umm Al-Qura newspaper, a newspaper mainly used to publish trademark registration announcements, posted an announcement by the ministry of commerce and industry regarding the regist ...

How to Enable iPhone and iPad 4G LTE with Zain, Mobily and STC

Apple recently released iOS 6.1 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. One of the features of this update is enabling 4G LTE in many countries including Saudi Arabia. Here is how to ...

iOS 6.1 Released, Enables 4G LTE with Zain and Mobily

Apple has released iOS 6.1 yeterday for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The iPad mainly enables LTE on many networks including Zain and Mobily in Saudi Arabia. From Apple: This up ...

Saudi iTunes Store Now Selling Movies and Music

Apple has started offering movies and music for sale in the Saudi Arabia iTunes Store. Starting with music (and gift cards) last week and movies today. You can buy movies from Disn ...

Mobily Begins Selling iPhone 5 Online, Announces Prices

Mobily has started taking orders for the iPhone 5 using Souq.com e-commerce site. They also announced the contract-free iPhone 5 prices. The phone will be available in Saudi Arabia ...

Zain Saudi Begins Taking iPhone 5 Pre-Orders

Zain Saudi Arabia has started taking pre-orders for the iPhone 5 scheduled for release next Thursday December 13th. Zain's 4G LTE network is the only network that currently support ...

Free iOS and Android Development Course in Riyadh

Posted by: Khaled A. Posted date: November 27, 2012 In: Development | comment : 0

STC and Badir program for technology incubators has announced a number of free development courses in the following topics: iOS Development Android Development Unity 3D Engine Development The courses are available for men and women. Each course is 2 weeks and available for 3 months. Courses will be held in Riyadh. Details from STC's website: The STC Developer training initiative covers a series of courses t ...

Panic to release Coda 2 & Diet Coda

Posted by: Waiel Posted date: May 22, 2012 In: Development, News | comment : 1

Panic announced today that they will release the anticipated application coda 2 on 24th May 2012. Coda 2 features many new features and enhancements for web developers which make coding much enjoyable. Here is a video explaining some of the features: For the list of all features you can check it here. Coda 2 will be available on the mac app store for $99, however on 24th of may it will be available for $49 ...

Apple Releases Mac OS X Lion Developer Preview 2

Posted by: Khaled A. Posted date: March 31, 2011 In: Development | comment : 0

Apple has released the second developer preview of the upcoming Mac OS, Lion. Mac OS X Lion Developer Preview 2 is available to members of Mac developer program. All information is protected under NDA so I won't post anything about it. However I would like to say that Mac OS X adds native Arabic language interface. More information about Mac OS X Lion is available on Apple's website. Apple has also released ...

Apple Releases iOS 4.3 Gold Master to Developers

Posted by: Khaled A. Posted date: March 04, 2011 In: Development | comment : 1

Apple has released the Golden Master (pre-release) seed of the software development kit for iOS 4.3 and iOS 4.3 for the iPad, iPod touch and iPhone. It is available for registered iOS developers. iOS 4.3 will be released to consumers March 11th. iOS 4.3 introduces many features such as playing iTunes content via Home Library, improved AirPlay and Personal Hotspot to share an Internet connection via Wi-Fi. M ...

Apple Releases Xcode 4 Golden Master

Posted by: Khaled A. Posted date: February 07, 2011 In: Development | comment : 1

Apple has released the golden master version of the upcoming Xcode 4 IDE. Xcode is the free development tools used to make Mac OS X and iOS applications. Xcode 4 was first introduced to WWDC 2010 attendees. To download Xcode 4 developer preview 4 you will need a free Apple Developer account. You can also watch these free WWDC 2010 sessions. All information is considered "Apple Confidential Information". You ...

Apple Releases iOS 4.3 Beta 3 for Developers

Posted by: Khaled A. Posted date: February 02, 2011 In: Development | comment : 0

Apple has released the third beta for iOS 4.3 and SDK. Xcode 3.2.6 and iOS SDK 4.3 beta 3, iOS 4.3 beta 3 for iOS devices and Apple TV Software beta 2 for second gen Apple TV are available for registered iOS developers. iOS 4.3 introduces many features such as improved AirPlay and Personal Hotspot to share an Internet connection via Wi-Fi. More information about iOS 4.3 can be found in this post. iOS 4.3 wi ...

Apple Releases iOS 4.3 Beta 2 for Developers

Posted by: Khaled A. Posted date: January 20, 2011 In: Development | comment : 0

Apple has released the second beta for iOS 4.3 and SDK. Xcode 3.2.6 and iOS SDK 4.3 beta 2, iOS 4.3 beta 2 for iOS devices and Apple TV Software beta 2 for second gen Apple TV are available for registered iOS developers. iOS 4.3 introduces many features such as improved AirPlay and Personal Hotspot to share an Internet connection via Wi-Fi. More information about iOS 4.3 can be found in this post. iOS 4.3 w ...

iOS 4.3 Beta Released to Developers

Posted by: Khaled A. Posted date: January 15, 2011 In: Development | comment : 9

Apple has released Xcode 3.2.6 with iOS SDK 4.3 beta and iOS 4.3 beta for iOS devices. It is available for registered iOS developers. iOS 4.3 might be publicly available March 2011. iOS 4.3 beta features include: iPad Arabic keyboard was improved as Arabic-PC keyboard interface was added as noted in these screenshots by @milyani. Also via Milyani: Arabic-PC keyboard layout was added to the iPhone, replacing ...

Apple releases iOS 4.2.1 Gold Master to Developers

Posted by: Khaled A. Posted date: November 19, 2010 In: Development | comment : 1

Apple has released a new Golden Master (pre-release) seed of the software development kit for iOS 4.2.1 and iOS 4.2.1 for the iPad, iPod touch and iPhone. It is available for registered iOS developers. Apple did release iOS 4.2 Golden Master two weeks ago then released a second edition for the iPad (iOS 4.2 GM b). But now Apple released iOS 4.2.1 GM which indicates that Apple might skip iOS 4.2 and release ...

Apple releases iOS 4.2 Gold Master to Developers

Posted by: Khaled A. Posted date: November 02, 2010 In: Development | comment : 2

Apple has released the Golden Master (pre-release) seed of the software development kit for iOS 4.2 and iOS 4.2 for the iPad, iPod touch and iPhone. It is available for registered iOS developers. One of the main features of iOS 4.2 is printing using AirPrint, streaming media using AirPlay and of course Arabic support for the iPad. iOS 4.2 GM is available for the following devices: iPad iPhone 4 iPhone 3GS i ...