Apperplace Bookstall allows you to build a bookstall app for the iPad. The app comes with all features for multi-issue publishing and is a white-label product and fully customizable.
Start with our ready-to-use project template, set-up your app and integrate it with our hosted content media platform at minimal costs: $999 one-time fee + monthly $99 for the hosting.
Our customers around the globe utilize Apperplace Bookstall in order to distribute existing print documents like books and catalogs via a bookstall with additional media enrichments (audio, video, links etc.).
These Slides will get you to your own bookstall step by step in one hour.
2. 1 Register and create an
Apperplace Bookstall account
http://bookstall.content-media-platform.com/amc
(white label server platform by Apperplace)
Hint: Write down your username and password.
You will need them later to configure your app.
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3. 2 Prepare your MAC
Apperplace_Bookstall_Tmpl_Project.xcodeproj
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Hint: If Xcode shows an Internal Error message
saying „Platform failed to completely load“, reinstall Xcode.
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5. 3 Configure basic settings
Properties.plist
Chose your design.
Enter skin name
into fields
„skinNamePublication“,
„skinNameStore“,
„skinNameShelf“
PlainGlossyBlack
PlainStormedgeBlue
TexturedWoodBamboo Only available for skinNameShelf
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6. 3 Configure basic settings
Bookstall Serverconf.plist
Enter „username“
and „password“ of
your Bookstall acount
into corresponding
.plist-fields
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7. 4 Create graphics for
individual design
App Icon Splash Image Portrait
PNG
72 x 72 px PNG or JPG
132 dpi 768 x 374 px
no rounded corners 132 dpi
no gloss effect
iTunes Artwork Infopage Landscape
PNG
PNG
512 x 512 px
1024 x 1180 px
132 dpi
132 dpi
no file extension!
Splash Image Landscape Infopage Portrait
PNG or JPG
1024 x 274 px
132 dpi PNG
768 x 1448 px
132 dpi
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8. 5 Add graphics to project
Finder: Xcode:
Copy all graphics to image folder in project Drag & drop Icon.png to Icon placeholder in Summary Tab
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9. 6 Upload and publish
Enter PDF file,
metadata and
thumbnails into
corresponding
fields. Press
„Upload and Save“
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10. 7 Build and test your app
developer.apple.com Click on „Distribution“ and follow
Click on iOS Dev Center instructions (skip App Store Distribution)
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11. 8 Add license key
Buy license: Add license key in Xcode:
www.apperplace.com/products/apperplace_bookstall/ (properties.plist)
download_and_purchase
Hint: The Bundle ID and license key are directly linked to each other and cannot be changed after buying!
The Bundle ID (Bundle Identifier) is the unique identification code for your app and specified in the Apple
Provisioning Portal. Please be aware only numbers and default characters without any blanks are allowed.
Usually a bundle identifier looks like this: „com.apperplace.appname“.
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12. 9 Build and submit your app
to the App Store
developer.apple.com Click on „Distribution“ and follow
Click on iOS Dev Center instructions (skip Adhoc Distribution)
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