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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

Chapter 7. Building for the Big Screen

Starting with iOS 4.2, the operating system running on iPhones and iPads, you're able to create rich, fullscreen iAds for the iPad. The iPad's large, 9.7-inch, multi-touch screen gives us an even larger canvas to create immersive and intimate iAds.

In this chapter we'll look at:

  • The differences of an iPad iAd

  • Creating rich, fullscreen banners

  • Including multiple banners in your ad to keep a fresh stream of content in a range of apps

  • Using objects that aren't available in the object library to create custom pages

Creating an iPad iAd

Most of the templates and objects you're familiar with on the iPhone are available on the iPad; however, to create iAds for the iPad, you'll need to start a new project. The iPad screen is substantially larger, and Apple requires you to redesign and plan your ads to take full advantage of this; but we'll be able to share many of the same resources and assets.

If you're using your own assets in the chapter, you'll need the following...