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iAd Production Beginner's Guide

By : Ben Collier
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iAd Production Beginner's Guide

By: Ben Collier

Overview of this book

Think of an iAd as a micro-app contained within an app on a user's iPhone or iPad that they've downloaded from the App Store. When the user taps your advert's banner it bursts into life filling the entire screen of their device. iAd Beginner's Guide takes you through the start to finish process of building rich, compelling, interactive iAds. You will learn to create beautiful multi-page ads with store finders, social sharing, 3D images and video galleries. You will create ads that utilize the powerful technologies in the iPhone to make your brand shine. Once you have engaged the user you can carry out targeted advertising campaigns with location-based coupons, store finders and social engagement. Using the iTunes Store you will see how it's even possible to add one-click digital content purchasing right within your ad. Learn how iAd producer manages all the HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3 behind your iAd. You will be creating emotive, gripping and effective mobile advertising campaigns in no time.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
iAd Production
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Time for action — running on the device


If you haven't configured your device for development, we can use Xcode's organizer tool to log in to the Apple provisioning portal and set up the required certificates and register your device:

  1. 1. Open Xcode, if it isn't already. Select Window | Organizer from the menu bar. This will open the organizer that allows us to manage our iOS devices, their provisioning, and app submissions.

  2. 2. Now plug an iOS device in, such as an iPhone or iPad. If it's syncing with iTunes, wait for it to finish. Make sure that the device tab of the organizer is selected and find your device in the list to the left.

  3. 3. Select the device and click on the Use for Development buttonto allow it to be set up for development.

  4. 4. Once the device has been configured locally, select the + Add to Portal buttonto contact the Apple developer portal that will set up your device. Enter the Username and Password for your Apple ID/developer account:

  5. 5. The organizer will now talk to Apple...