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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 — copying our ad to the device


The File Sharing feature of iTunes can be used to copy our iAd to the device so that it can be opened with iAd Tester. Make sure you're using a recent version of iTunes that has File Sharing enabled—select the Apple logo from the menu bar then Software Update… to download any updates that may be required.

  1. 1. In Finder, locate your exported iAd; it should be a folder called Your-Project-Name.ad. If you're curious, have a look at the structure of your exported iAd. iAd Tester requires a zipped or compressed version of our exported project, so right click on the folder containing the export and choose Compress "Your-Project-Name.ad". You can see our Dino Store project being compressed, in the following screenshot:

  2. 2. After the ZIP file has been made, check that iTunes is open and connect an iOS device with iAd Tester installed. Click on the device in the sidebar to open the overview. Now, open the Apps tab and find the File Sharing section near...