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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 — simulating hardware in the simulator


With a real device, we can shake, pinch, and rotate the iPhone or iPad to interact with an iAd. These events can be emulated within the simulator.

  1. 1. We'll be using an example project with a selection of objects we can interact with. Open the Interaction Demo project included with the book assets.

  2. 2. From the ad overview, click the Simulate button to open the simulator. First up, let's look at rotating the device.

  3. 3. You should see the banner appear in iAd Tester. We'll now rotate the simulator to check how our banner looks in landscape. From the menu bar, select Hardware then Rotate Left or Rotate Right to rotate the device. The simulator will then rotate and the banner should update to show in landscape. Now rotate the iAd back to portrait, either by rotating once in the opposite direction or by rotating the simulator in the same direction three more times, to get back where we started.

    Note

    You can also use keyboard shortcuts to rotate...