Apple’s mobile advertising platform iAd has been met with moderate success, but hopefully this latest 3.0 update to iAd Producer should get more people interested, as it contains some pretty cool new features including a revamped UI and new templates.
iOS integration is also hugely improved on with the update. Here are a list of things that ad creators will be able to insert into iAds (via 9to5Mac:
Add calendar event, Send email, Place a call, Add contact, Add ringtone, Take screen shot, Set content offset for scrollView, Add PDF to iBooks, Set wallpaper, Save to photo library, Open URL, Take photo.
Other novelties include project wide shared layers and auto advance between pages. iAd has not been as successful as hoped but hopefully this new update will get more developers interested and involved, so we could be seeing more iAds in the near future.
Full list of features:
• New templates
• New project overview user interface
• New layer list with search, re-ordering, and the ability to hide layers
• Project-wide shared layers
• Auto-advance between pages
• New built-in actions, including:
⁃ Add calendar event
⁃ Send email
⁃ Place a call
⁃ Add contact
⁃ Add ringtone
⁃ Take screen shot
⁃ Set content offset for scrollView
⁃ Add PDF to iBooks
⁃ Set wallpaper
⁃ Save to photo library
⁃ Open URL
⁃ Take photo
• iAd JS updated to version 1.6
