I've been working with creating a magazine style app for the iPad. Ideally this Zenio will look a bit like an app: This app is effectively a shell, so you can sample magazines (like read some pages first) and select them to download. Some types of overlays appear in magazines, so you can communicate with some things (like tap to watch videos). Some questions that come to mind:
- How do I go about giving content to the user? In-app purchases are not really an option, because some content will need to be delivered for free. Is it possible to download the package and make it available within the application?
- Which format would be appropriate to display the magazine? Sequential images, PDFs, ebooks?
- I should have some form of interactivity I think I can have some sort of lookup table in which the information will be included as if the user tap on this page, within these coordinates, then launch this item Please.
Issues?
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If you want to sell the magazine edition within the app, -App purchases have to be used, Apple will not accept anything However, in-app purchase does not have a free shopping module, so you probably have to design your app as follows: a. This will ping a web service that will return all available magazines (free and paid) in JSN or XML format. B. The app will parse and display this response. C. If a user tries to download paid magazines, you do it through in-app purchases, and are downloaded directly.
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Its a difficult question depending on which type of content you have, if its mostly text, its better PDF, using other images to handle images is heavy It can be difficult and it can lead to buggy and crash prone app. (I warn you)
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As I mentioned in this, you can get the JSON information from the server and save it in Core-Data / SKMET DB or do PLIST and related stuff. My priority will be PLIST.
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