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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 different devices


By default, iAd Producer opens the simulator as an iPhone 4 with Retina Display for iPhone ads, or a generic iPad for iPad projects. The iPhone 4 simulator is scaled to 50 percent to counter the higher pixel count so it can still fit on your screen. We can also open a standard resolution display iPhone to see how our lower-resolution assets appear. Let's try simulating in the iPad, standard resolution iPhones, and different software versions of iOS.

  1. 1. Let's open an iPad project to see how the simulator looks when testing iPad ads. As we've not created an iPad ad yet, open the Interactions Demo - iPad file from the book assets. Once loaded, click Simulate to open the simulator.

  2. 2. The simulator should automatically open with the iPad. Try interacting with the iAd—the same hardware controls apply for shaking and rotating.

    Note

    It can be hard to distinguish between the iPad and iPhone 4 retina simulators; if you're unsure which simulator is open...