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[Building iPad Applications for Newsstand on iOS 5 with Colin Fleming, 10 October 2011]
I'm Colin Fleming. I'm Adobe's Digital Publishing Evangelist.
I've got some really cool news having to do with the Digital Publishing Suite
and Apple's iOS 5 Newsstand features.
It's the 10th of October today, and sometime in the middle of this week
we anticipate the release of iOS 5 from Apple.
One of the new features is something called Newsstand.
Newsstand on the iPad is a place or a way to help present your content
which is built as a digital publication in a sort of selective location,
and that's inside of the Newsstand.
Some of the special features about Newsstand
is it's going to give you a more exclusive position on an iPad,
not in the mix and the milieu of applications but really isolated about reading content.
Any publication that's in the Newsstand is also going to support things like notifications
that there's new content and things like background downloading,
which is going to give your readers a really smooth experience with your content.
To support Newsstand, Adobe has updated our tools for building the applications
built with the Digital Publishing Suite.
Today, the 10th of October, we updated the Viewer Builder to support Newsstand.
Let's take a look at how easy it is to build one of these applications.
I'm looking at the Viewer Builder right here.
I'm going to come to the bottom edge and click New.
Newsstand is an iPad only feature, so I target iPad
and I just plain work through this wizard.
I'm going to do things like choose an iTunes subscription
because that's where Newsstand occurs,
and then I start filling in information,
things like the viewer name and what will appear at the top of the viewer
when my reader is consuming my content,
and I select the language that I'm publishing in.
I click Next and move to the next pane of information.
This is Subscription Details.
This is where I load up images that are going to be showing in the subscription area.
So I'm going to go find some artwork that I've already built,
point to it for both the horizontal and the vertical versions,
and then I'm going to put some information in here about my product.
Again I click the Next button. Now I load icons and splash screens.
This is just a matter of pointing at artwork that I've already built.
Once the icon and splash screens are loaded, again I move to the next.
Here is where we get to this new dialog,
and this is where I fill in the information identifying this particular application
as being a Newsstand-compliant app.
So I'm going to say that yes, this is a Newsstand application.
It's going to be classified as a magazine,
and I choose a binding edge.
This is going to control where I see badges and ornamentation
that talk about new issues and new publications that are out.
I'm going to go ahead and bind on the left.
One of those features about Newsstand which is pretty cool
is if there is a new issue, a new folio which is available,
the Newsstand icon will automatically change to show the current content.
But if I don't have a piece of current content, we put in a default icon here to hold the place.
That's what it takes to set up Newsstand.
I would click Next and fill in a couple of other pieces of information about provisioning
and push notifications, and at the end of the process I submit the build.
When I'm all done with the build, I would simply move back to the Manage screen
at the beginning of Viewer Builder, and once it's available,
I would download this brand new Newsstand-compliant viewer.
I then would submit this to Apple for approval and I'm ready to go.
So that's how easy it is to build a Newsstand-compliant application
for Digital Publishing Suite customers in either the Professional or Enterprise level.
Give it a shot. Thanks for listening.