All SeattleCloud's publisher subscribers have their branded previewer applications to express their identity as a company. Using such previewer you will be able to preview the applications on real devices by downloading the previewer from the App Store. Previewer applications have to be submitted to the stores as normal applications, they will have to undergo a review.
How to customise a previewer application?
By default you will get 4 previewer applications on your Publisher account. These are as following:
- iPhonePreviewer
- iPadPreviewer
- AndroidPreviewer
- KindlePreviewer
Previewer app is not just a simple app, it is a hardcoded tool that has a very little things to be modified.
You cannot use these options from Previewer app's dashboard to customise such application/tool:
- Backup/ Restore
- Edit Pages - Page Settings
- Design Properties
- Navigation Settings
- Newsstand Properties / Content Publishing
- Class Manager
Therefore, you can modify your previewer application by following the steps below. All these steps provide information how to design a branded application and not how to change the code of the previewer application (do not try to modify the app's code, as you may broke it). All modifications are design changes and not technical one.
1) My Applications -> iPhonePreviewer's Dashboard -> AppStore Properties
Here you need to fill-in fields with your app information and resources.
Here you have to upload App's Graphics such as application's icons and splash screen images for your Previewer Application.
3) Last step is to replace all "SAMPLE" resources that are not listed in AppStore Properties or App Multimedia.
Go to My Applications -> iPhonePreviewer's Dashboard -> Edit Pages -> Resource Manager - Here you will need just to replace all "SAMPLE" images and icons from Resource Manager (file names are Key Sensitive). Replace these images with your company's logo (previewer_help_logo.png;previewer_logo.png; previewer_sync_logo.png) and company's information (previewer_help.png)
Images you need to change:
previewer_help_logo.png - 28x28px previewer_help.png - from 320x640 px previewer_logo.png - from 320x50px previewer_sync_logo.png - 28x28px
**NOTE: You should customise your Previewers as is described in this step-by-step tutorial. Any other customisations will break this tool and will make it useless. You can not Synchronize this tool from the App Dashboard and can not Duplicate a Previewer. You will not be able to publish a previewer app if you'll change the AppID.
How to publish a previewer application?
For publishing a previewer application you'll need to add it in your Active Publisher Subscription.
Also, please choose in submission process the "Build & Publish under my account" option. (Step 3.3 in "How to publish your app on App Store." tutorial )
All SeattleCloud's publisher subscribers have their branded previewer applications to express their identity as a company. Using such previewer you will be able to preview the applications on real devices by downloading the previewer from the App Store. Previewer applications have to be submitted to the stores as normal applications, they will have to undergo a review.
How to customise a previewer application?
By default you will get 4 previewer applications on your Publisher account. These are as following:
- iPhonePreviewer
- iPadPreviewer
- AndroidPreviewer
- KindlePreviewer
Previewer app is not just a simple app, it is a hardcoded tool that has a very little things to be modified.
You cannot use these options from Previewer app's dashboard to customise such application/tool:
- Backup/ Restore
- Edit Pages
- Page Settings
- Design Properties
- Navigation Settings
- Newsstand Properties / Content Publishing
- Class Manager
Therefore, you can modify your previewer application by following the steps below. All these steps provide information how to design a branded application and not how to change the code of the previewer application (do not try to modify the app's code, as you may broke it). All modifications are design changes and not technical one.
1) My Applications -> iPhonePreviewer's Dashboard -> AppStore Properties
Here you need to fill-in fields with your app information and resources.
2) My Applications -> iPhonePreviewer's Dashboard -> App Multimedia
Here you have to upload App's Graphics such as application's icons and splash screen images for your Previewer Application.
3) Last step is to replace all "SAMPLE" resources that are not listed in AppStore Properties or App Multimedia.
Go to My Applications -> iPhonePreviewer's Dashboard -> Edit Pages -> Resource Manager - Here you will need just to replace all "SAMPLE" images and icons from Resource Manager (file names are Key Sensitive). Replace these images with your company's logo (previewer_help_logo.png; previewer_logo.png; previewer_sync_logo.png) and company's information (previewer_help.png)
Images you need to change:
previewer_help_logo.png - 28x28px
previewer_help.png - from 320x640 px
previewer_logo.png - from 320x50px
previewer_sync_logo.png - 28x28px
**NOTE: You should customise your Previewers as is described in this step-by-step tutorial. Any other customisations will break this tool and will make it useless. You can not Synchronize this tool from the App Dashboard and can not Duplicate a Previewer. You will not be able to publish a previewer app if you'll change the AppID.
How to publish a previewer application?
For publishing a previewer application you'll need to add it in your Active Publisher Subscription.
Also, please choose in submission process the "Build & Publish under my account" option. (Step 3.3 in "How to publish your app on App Store." tutorial )