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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 — opening an ad


Now that we have the iOS Simulator installed, we can test an iAd running in the full iAd framework.

  1. 1. Open up iAd Producer and load an existing iAd project, for example, the Dino Stores project we made earlier.

  2. 2. From the ad overview, click the Simulate button in the bottom-left bar to open the simulator. You can use Cmd + Enter to open the simulator from the keyboard.

    Note

    iAd Producer will automatically open the iOS Simulator as an iPhone or iPad, based on the type of project you're working on.

  3. Note

    The iAd Tester app is a fake placeholder app that emulates an app where your ad could appear. Typically, your iAd will appear at the bottom, above the tab bar, which is used for navigating between the screens in an app.

  4. 4. Click the banner to open your iAd. You can now play around and test your iAd, as you would if it was on a device.

What just happened?

You now have tested your iAd in the exact software environment it will run in. Whenever you want to update the preview...