Adobe Digital Publishing Suite - Manual (Page 22)

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Release 28
Text-based push notifications (iOS, Professional/Enterprise)
Using a third-party push notification service is no longer required to send text notifications to your customers. By sending custom text messages,
you can encourage repeat readers and subscribers on iOS devices by alerting readers of new content. Text notifications work with any viewer
version. In addition, you can use SiteCatalyst analytics to measure customer reaction to push notifications, including the number of readers who
opt-in to receiving push alerts.
Baseline analytics improvements (beta version, English only)
The DPS Dashboard includes a new beta version of baseline analytics reports. With the new baseline analytics, you can view Standard Audience
Accumulation metrics for digital readership that comply with the MPA Tablet Metrics guidelines. Newly available reports display data such as total
readers, total sessions, total time spent per reader, average sessions per reader, devices, and operating system.
While analyzing data, you can change accumulation settings across standard metrics. With the redesigned interface, you can gain access to
analytics and export report data to view in a spreadsheet.
Support for iOS 7
v28 apps include support for iOS 7. Note that on iOS 7 devices, any viewer created with v24 or earlier may perform poorly. In particular, folios with
landscape orientation either fail to display or display poorly. For best results, update all DPS apps to v27 or v28.
Drop of support for iOS 5
Adobe DPS is dropping support for iOS 5. With this change, v28 apps will not run on iOS5, and by extension, on iPad 1 devices. If you want to
continue supporting iPad 1 devices, make sure that you create folios that are compatible with the viewer version of the existing app (v27 or
earlier).
iOS 7 requirements for DPS apps
With DPS App Builder, you can build v28 apps that comply with Apple iOS 7 design guidelines, including new light-colored user interface design
themes. Consider the following iOS 7 requirements when designing and building your apps:
iOS 7 requires the system bar to be displayed in apps. When you build a v28 app, the 20- or 40-pixel system status bar now appears above
the top navigation bar in all views, including folio view. When users tap to display the navigation bars, more of your design area is covered.
Make necessary adjustments to your article layouts.
With iOS 7, the custom icons in the bottom Navigation toolbar (Enterprise only) work differently. When you build a v28 app with custom
toolbar icons, you no longer provide three separate icons for Up, Down, and Disabled states. Instead, you provide a single PNG file with a
transparent background, and iOS 7 changes the color of the display state automatically. (These files are 30x30 and 60x60 pixels.) You no
longer need to embed the text label in the navigation icon. Instead, specify text in the Icon Label field in DPS App Builder, which appears
below the custom icons. If your app supports multiple languages, you can localize this text. These new icons appear in the Navigation bar
only if the icon is actionable. For example, the “Viewer” button does not appear until a folio is downloaded. If enabled, the Navigation toolbar
is a few pixels taller than the Navigation toolbar in previous apps (12 pixels on SD iPads, 24 pixels on HD iPads). Again, make the necessary
adjustments to your layouts. For more information about these icons, see Creating DPS apps for the iPad and iPhone.
For iOS 7, additional app icon sizes are required: 152x152 (iPad HD), 76x76 (iPad SD), and 120x120 (iPhone). These new icon files are
required when you build either a v27 or v28 app in DPS App Builder.
DPS viewers include several UI changes for iOS 7. For example, the library background is much lighter than in previous versions, so check
your cover images for appropriate contrast. If your app includes an article that describes how to use the app, you’ll likely want to update this
help content.
Note that there are known problems with v24 and earlier apps working on iOS 7 devices. For best results, update existing apps to v27 or later.
AirDrop Support for iOS 7
With v28 apps on iOS 7 devices, you can share articles with people near you using AirDrop. When recipients receive shared article links via
AirDrop on an iPad, they can take advantage of the new v28 Mobile Safari Web Viewer feature.
Mobile Safari Web Viewer (iPad only)
When an iPad user taps a link to an unprotected shared article, the shared article opens directly in the Mobile Safari Web Viewer. This feature lets
share recipients view a web viewer version of the article with a single tap on the iPad rather than having to download the app. The Mobile Safari
Web Viewer (also called “article viewer”) provides links to download the app or view the article if it's already downloaded on the iPad. In this initial
release, some features such as certain overlay types are not yet supported.
Schedule Folio Availability Date
Define a specific date and time to make folio content available on the Distribution Service to app users, eliminating the need for production staff to
manually push new content live.
You can also set Schedule Folio Availability Date information programmatically using the Folio Producer API (Enterprise only).
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