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iOS 5, the brand new version of Apple's operating system, has been available since last week. The new iPhone 4s is also equipped with the new operating system as standard. But iOS 5 is also available as an upgrade for older iPhones and the iPad.

Why are we telling you this? Simple: From now on the Developer Garden offers an Objective-C SDK that makes it even easier for you to incorporate our APIs in iOS-based apps. Of course, our SDK is fully iOS5-compatible.

The most important new features of the current version of the mobile operating system include:

• the ability to integrate iCloud Storage in apps;
• new calls or ads in AutoScout24, for example, can be shown in the Notification Center;
• Automatic Reference Counting (ARC), a garbage collector, means the developer no longer has to worry about storage management himself;
• storyboards support the creation of GUIs;
• JSON is now supported by a native API.

Details of new features for developers are available directly from Apple.

Want the AutoScout24 search engine in your own app on the iPhone? Want to integrate text messaging and MMS in an iPad app? Launch conference calls? All that is child's play with the Telekom Objective-C SDK. Along with documentation in English, you'll also find sample applications for the individual APIs.

All other information is available on our SDK site and in the comprehensive documentation.

The SDK requires iOS 5, which is supported by the iPhone models 3GS / 4 and 4s, iPod touch of the 3rd and 4th generations, and the iPad / iPad 2. The Xcode 4 development environment even lets you try out SDK without hardware, using the emulator.

Got any questions or ideas? Just write a comment here in the blog or submit something to the forum.