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Next will be Unity iPhone 1.1. Since the release of 1.0.1 we’ve been working on a number of performance and memory optimizations. Most of the work on 1.1 is finished already and we’re doing an internal bug fixing round before it goes to beta testers too. Along with optimizations this release will include number of important features such as:

* Binding custom ObjectiveC/C++ functions to C#/Javascript
* Native on-screen keyboard support and interoperability with Unity GUI
* Movie playback support
* Performance optimizations:
o significant C#/Javascript performance improvements
o general rendering loop optimizations resulting in less OpenGLES state changes and less CPU work per object
o number of internal routines were rewritten using VFP coprocessor assembly
o way much faster mesh skinning utilizing VFP
o batching small objects, given that they share same material, into single draw call

* General distribution size optimizations which allows applications below 10Mb
* Number of significant memory footprint optimizations


We don’t have strict versioning past 1.1 yet. Some of the following features will end up in the next big release and some might find a way to sneak into 1.1:

* Compressed audio streaming directly from disk
* Support for 3.0 SDK
* 3.0 downloadable content
* 3.0 bluetooth networking
* GPS/Location support
* Vibration support
* Post-processing and render-targets support
* Terrain support
* Per-pixel DOT3 lighting support for skinned meshes
* Reduce load times
* Reduce distribution size even further
* Improve GarbageCollector collection patterns to reduce spikes
* Prepare a pack with iPhone optimized shaders