Understanding different types of dps apps – Adobe Digital Publishing Suite User Manual
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Understanding different types of DPS apps
Types of custom viewer apps
Types of app distribution
About entitlement and fulfillment
Anyone who has installed the Folio Producer tools can create a folio and share it with other people. To create a custom viewer app and submit it to
the Apple App Store, Google Play, Amazon Appstore, or Windows Store, you need either a Professional or Enterprise subscription to the Digital
Publishing Suite, or you need a Creative Cloud membership or a Single Edition license.
For information on subscribing to the Digital Publishing Suite, see
Types of custom viewer apps
The Adobe Content Viewer lets you preview folios and share them with individuals. To make your folios available in a store, you use the DPS App
Builder to create a custom viewer app.
Single-folio viewer app
In a single-folio viewer app, the folio is built in to the viewer app. The viewer has no library.
To create a single-folio app using a Single Edition license, you select the folio in the Folio Builder Panel and choose Create App from the panel
menu. Then you build the app and upload it to the Apple Store. To create a single-folio app using a Professional and Enterprise subscribers,
export a .zip file using the Folio Producer Organizer and specify that .zip file using DPS App Builder.
Note that a single-folio app does not support bookmarks or social sharing. A single-folio app cannot appear in Newsstand. At this time, you can
create a single-folio viewer app for iPads but not for iPhones, Android, or Windows devices.
A single-folio viewer does not have a library.
Multi-folio viewer app
In a multi-folio viewer app, you use the DPS App Builder to create a viewer that is essentially a shell. The viewer app that you submit includes no
content. You use the Folio Producer Organizer to publish folios to the Adobe Distribution Service. Customers use the viewer’s library to download
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