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iAd Production Beginner's Guide

By : Ben Collier
Book Image

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 — installing Xcode manually (harder)


If you don't want to or can't use the Mac App Store, we can manually download and install Xcode from the developer portal. If you've successfully downloaded the app from the App Store, skip this exercise.

  1. 1. To access the iOS SDK, we need to log in to the iOS developer portal. Go to http://developer.apple.com/ios/ and log in with your Apple ID and password.

  2. 2. We need to download the iOS SDK, the application used to develop iOS applications for iPhone and iPad. Once logged in, find the Downloads section near the bottom of the page and click on Download Xcode 4 to start the download. In the following screenshot, we can see the option to download Xcode in the developer portal:

    Note

    The Xcode and iOS SDK download is several gigabytes in size and can take a while to download; if you have a slow connection, it might be worth leaving it overnight to complete.

    Once downloaded, open the Xcode and iOS SDK.mkpg installation package by double clicking...