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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

Testing in the simulator


The iOS Simulator allows us to test on devices that we may not have, and is useful for quickly deploying tests in an accurate environment for compatibility checking.

The iPad apps available at launch were built entirely using the simulator, as developers were unable to get access to the physical devices before they went on sale.

Installing Xcode and the iOS Simulator

To use the iOS Simulator to test on iPhone and iPad, you need to install the iOS SDK from Apple, which is included with Xcode. An SDK is a Software Development Kit; it contains the tools needed to build and test software for a specific platform.

Xcode is available for download either from the Mac App Store or manually from the developer portal. The Mac App Store is preferable but is only available in later versions of Mac OS X. Let's take a look at installing with the Mac App Store and how to get Xcode manually if it's unavailable.

Note

You'll need approximately 10GB of free disk space available on your...