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[Adobe Digital Publishing Suite]
[Colin Fleming - Digital Publishing Evangelist] Let's go a little bit deeper now
and talk about building a viewer application for a Pro or Enterprise customer.
The experience is slightly different than a Single Edition customer
because Pro and Enterprise folks get extra access to extra tools.
If I take a look at the DPS Dashboard here, I can see on the left-hand side
that I have access to the Viewer Builder.
If I have not downloaded the Viewer Builder before, clicking on this will download it.
If I've already downloaded it, it's going to launch it.
I now sign in to the Viewer Builder with my Adobe ID,
and I'm brought into the Manage screen.
You can see I've built a couple of applications in the past,
but I want to build a new one today.
So I'm going to go to the bottom corner and click New.
Now I can choose which platform I want to build the viewer for.
In my example today I'm going to build something for the iPad,
but you can choose Android or PlayBook.
If I choose iPad and click Next, now I get to a screen where I can choose
the type of viewer that I'm going to build.
These viewers might include an Adobe hosted multi-issue application,
it could be a single issue application, and it could be other types of entitlement
or subscription-based applications as well.
I'm going to work with a hosted multi-issue today.
I add a viewer name--I'm going to call it LOCAL--and I specify what the reader will see
inside of the viewer on their tablet.
I also need to include the Adobe ID which was used to build the folio.
This is going to let the application and the folio work together.
When my application goes to the App Store, it's also important to tell possible readers
what language I'm working in.
I'm working in English, so I select that one and click the Next button.
In the next screen, I'm going to load icons for the application
and splash screens that you see when you've launched the app.
I click the Select icon and now load the PNG files that I've built already.
I'm loading a 29-pixel square PNG, a 50-pixel square PNG, and a 72-pixel square PNG.
Again, those are going to be what I see in the App Store and on my tablet.
I also need a splash screen.
This is what viewers see as they launch the application,
and I've built the splash screens to match the dimensions of my iPad.
I build both a vertical and a horizontal version just for a little variety
and to support that sort of idea of whichever access or orientation you like.
I'm going to click the Next button,
and now I move into options that Enterprise customers get,
and that's the option to customize the navigation bar.
I'm going to work with the stock one for this example, so I'll simply click Next.
And now as an Enterprise or Pro account,
I'm going to define my mobile provisioning certificates.
I click the Browse button and then go find my distribution certificate
and my developer certificate.
These are going to be important. It's part of the signing process for generating these files.
If I'm working as an Enterprise customer, I can include push notifications
and I'd fill in the bottom half of this screen.
I can click Next.
I see information about the build,
and eventually I click Submit Build in the bottom right-hand corner.
The Viewer Builder on my machine
is now talking to the Viewer Builder system in the cloud,
and the application is being constructed for me now.
When I'm all done, I click Finish and I'm brought back to the Manage screen,
and we can see on the top row of this Manage my application is currently being built for me.
When the build is complete, in the right-hand column in the status area
I'm going to have the option to download the Developer IPA file.
This is what I would put onto my iPad with the mobile provisioning file
for me to test on my device or on colleagues' devices.
When the test is all looking good, everyone is happy with it,
I pull down the distribution viewer.
This is the zip file that I would submit to the App Store for sale and distribution.
So that's how I build a viewer.
Pretty simple working with the Viewer Builder.
When I'm all done, I quit it and away I go.
Thanks for watching.
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