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Discover how to create and publish apps for iPad using Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite and Apple's iOS Developer Program. Learn about app creation, testing, submission to the App Store, and more.
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Chapter 8 Create an App and Publish to the iPad
Exploring Apps and iPad Publishing • Apps are programs that run on the iPad. • App is short for application.
Exploring Apps and iPad Publishing Shopping for apps in the App Store
Exploring Apps and iPad Publishing • The app is central to the iPad. • Everything that you do on an iPad is based on apps. • Without apps, the iPad would be nothing more than a hand-held web browser.
Exploring Apps and iPad Publishing TIME magazine app icon
Exploring Apps and iPad Publishing • Apps for magazine publications can maintain the experience and interaction of reading an actual magazine. • Apps for websites allow for a more user-friendly browsing experience.
Exploring Apps and iPad Publishing TIME magazine library eBay app on the iPad
Exploring the Digital Publishing Suite • Creating and producing apps for the iPad is done through Apple’s iOS Developer Program. • The iOS refers to the operating system for the iPhone and the iPad.
Exploring the Digital Publishing Suite Apple’s iOS developer page
Exploring the Digital Publishing Suite • Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) is a subscription-based publishing service provided by Adobe to users who want to publish InDesign publications to the iPad without having to write code.
Exploring the Digital Publishing Suite Digital Publishing Suite home page
Exploring the Digital Publishing Suite • A graphic designer can use a single layout in InDesign as both a printed piece and an interactive publication on the iPad.
Exploring the Digital Publishing Suite • Digital Publishing Suite offers three different subscription models: • Enterprise Edition • Professional Edition • Single Edition
Exploring the Digital Publishing Suite Comparing three subscription editions on Adobe.com
Exploring the Digital Publishing Suite • The Digital Publishing Suite is not software. • When purchasing a subscription to DPS, you are purchasing access to publishing on the iPad.
Exploring the Digital Publishing Suite • The iOS is the operating system for products like the iPad and the iPhone. • When you want to create apps for the iPad and the iPhone, you must first register with Apple as an iOS developer.
Exploring the Digital Publishing Suite iOS Developer website
Exploring the Digital Publishing Suite • Before you start creating apps and uploading them to the App Store, Apple wants to know who you are, what app you’re creating, and the specific device you’re creating it on. • Apple wants to be sure that they know who they’re doing business with.
Exploring the Digital Publishing Suite • Before you can upload an app, you must first obtain identification documentation known as certificates and provisioning files.
Exploring the Digital Publishing Suite • The four specific files they need are: 1. Distribution P12 certificate 2. Distribution mobileprovision file 3. Developer P12 certificate 4. Developer mobileprovision file
Exploring the Digital Publishing Suite • Certificates and provisioning files are electronic documents that you request and download from Apple. • Apple associates your digital identity with the basic information about you and your devices you are creating apps for.
Exploring the Digital Publishing Suite Identifying your status as an iOS Developer
Making the Leap from InDesign to the App Store • Once you’ve created a folio in InDesign, exporting it through the Digital Publishing Suite interface is the first step to publishing it.
Making the Leap from InDesign to the App Store DPS Dashboard page
Making the Leap from InDesign to the App Store • When you export your folio online at the Digital Publishing Suite dashboard, all of the elements that make up the folio—the cover images, the articles and the folio itself—are all collected and packaged into a .zip file, which you save to your computer.
Making the Leap from InDesign to the App Store • After you’ve published the folio and it exists as a .zip file on your computer, you use the Viewer Builder module on the DPS Dashboard page to package the app.
Making the Leap from InDesign to the App Store .DPS Folio Producer Organizer page
Making the Leap from InDesign to the App Store • Think of this step of the process as creating the actual package for the app into which you’ll inject the folio that you published.
Making the Leap from InDesign to the App Store • Before you submit the app to the Apple App Store, you should test it on your iPad. • To do so, you must download the Developer Viewer (.ipa) file from the App Status page to your desktop and test it here.
Making the Leap from InDesign to the App Store Viewer Builder welcome screen
Submitting Your App to the App Store • The Distribution Viewer (.zip) file listed in the Viewer Builder App Status window is your complete and packaged app—the file you’ll submit to the App Store.
Submitting Your App to the App Store Viewer Builder App Status window
Submitting Your App to the App Store • These steps need to be followed: • Download the .zip file from Viewer Builder to your desktop. • Click Distribution Viewer (.zip) in the App Status window.
Submitting Your App to the App Store • These steps need to be followed: • Enter the Distribution certificate you downloaded and converted. • Enter your password. • Click Download and Sign.
Submitting Your App to the App Store • A file named Distribution Viewer. zip will appear on your desktop.
Submitting Your App to the App Store • Uploading an app to Apple is done using iTunes Connect software. • Go to https://itunesconnect.apple.com/.
Submitting Your App to the App Store Upload page
Submitting Your App to the App Store • Once you’re there, log in with your Apple ID. • Click Manage Your Applications, then click the Add New App button.
Submitting Your App to the App Store iTunes Connect splash page menu
Submitting Your App to the App Store • Uploading your .zip file requires a program called Application Loader. • If you don’t have it installed on your computer, you will see a screen prompting you to download and install it.
Submitting Your App to the App Store Application Loader welcome page