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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 — taking a screenshot


We can take screenshots on an iOS device or by using the simulator of your Mac.

  1. 1. To take a screenshot on our iOS device, open up a screen you want to capture, such as a page of your ad in iAd Tester.

  2. 2. Find the home button (the circular button at the bottom center of your screen) and the lock button (the button at the top of your device used to turn it off) and press these at the same time. You should hear a camera snap and the screen flash white briefly. If this doesn't happen, try again and make sure that you press them at precisely the same time.

  3. 3. This saves a copy of the entire screen image to your camera roll, which you can find in the Photos app on your iOS device. Open up the image you just took, and you can send the picture via email.

  4. 4. If you want to take a screenshot on your Mac, open your iAd in the iOS Simulator. Once you've got the page of your ad that you want to share, press Cmd + Shift + 4, on your keyboard. You can now click-and-drag...