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Designing for iphone & ipad Question

Charmaine Anderson 13 aastat tagasi • uuendaja Alin Alexandru Matei 13 aastat tagasi • 1
I designed my app for the iPad (1024 x 768) resolution and am wondering if it is required by apple for my app to also fit onto an iPhone, as I notice in their app store most apps are offered on both iPad and iPhone.  I don't think my app would work well on the iPhone's small screen size as the assets would appear rather small…. can you advise if you automatically scale the iPad version to fit on an iPhone or if I need to create another version of my app for the iPhone so it would fit the smaller screen size and where necessary, "dumb" down the user experience by reducing the number of assets on screen so they are large enough to interact with?  Thanks for your thoughts and advice on how to handle this.
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Alin Alexandru Matei 13 aastat tagasi
The app will be automatically be sized to iPhone version to so you'll only need to build it once.
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Reappearance of Actions Sets deleted via the ‘Manage Action Sets’ screen:

Phil Moffat 13 aastat tagasi • uuendaja Inna Komarovsky 12 aastat tagasi • 3 • 1 duplikaat
Reappearance of Actions Sets deleted via the ‘Manage Action Sets’ screen:
Dear IB Team, I sometimes find that Action Sets deleted (using the red X, then ‘Apply’) in the ‘Manage Action Sets’ screen don’t always appear as having been deleted when I return to view via the ‘Action’ tab in the ‘Props/Action/Info’ Info’ panel. I am using IB version 3.3.3 Build 325
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Inna Komarovsky 12 aastat tagasi

We were able to recreate this and we are working on a fix. Thank you for pointing out this bug.

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Building apps for my clients?

Clint Sutton 13 aastat tagasi • uuendaja Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 13 aastat tagasi • 2

Hi,

In one of your videos on "Build Apps and make money with Interactbuilder" you talk about using interactbuilder to build apps for clients.  I would like to know how this would work?

For example, if a client of mine wanted me to build them a book app, and I built it in your interactbuilder software.  How will the client get it?  How would I deliver the final app to them?  Will the client have to have a publishing membership?

How exactly can I use your software to "build apps" as you have mentioned in your video?

Clint


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Hi Clint,


The best way to handle this is for your customer to sign up to a publishing membership, but at the same time you could also submit the app to us by signing up yourself to a publishing membership, it's totally up to you.  

Basically once the app is submitted from the InteractBuilder we compile it and submit it to the app stores. If you want to use your own developer account we can transfer the app to your account or your customers account once we get it submitted.


As far as using our app, please watch our numerous videos, or look through our user guide to learn all about our software.  Our YouTube channel is: www.youtube.com/interactstudios.  You can download our software for free at: www.interactbuilder.com.


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How can you play page and narration audio together?

SeanB 12 aastat tagasi • uuendaja Inna Komarovsky 12 aastat tagasi • 3
There is a conflict that prevents using page audio (like background music) if you want to have an audio that reads a sentence out loud.

You have to set the reading audio to "stop all audio before playing" so that multiple clicks don't start multiple playbacks of it (it sounds like a crowd of clones). 

And when you use this setting, it kills the page audio.

I assume a solution of some kind won't come until Narration is restored.
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Inna Komarovsky 12 aastat tagasi
Hi Sean,

One workaround for the time being would be to chain two action sets together: Tap-StopAudio (the narration) followed by (none)-PlayAudio (the same narration).
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two elements cannot both have on page load actions

SeanB 12 aastat tagasi • uuendaja Alin Alexandru Matei 12 aastat tagasi • 3
I added element one, Action - Behavior: fadeOut 4000ms, Execute on page load: Yes
2 Interact > it worked
3 added element two, Chained Actions - Drop 4000ms, fadeOut 4000ms, Execute oh page load: Yes
4 Interact > no actions worked
5 Removed element 2 action 2 fadeOut
6 Interact > no actions worked
7 Removed element 2 action 1. Now only single element with single onPageLoad action
8 Interact > it worked

Expected: All elements with onPageLoad actions will have their actions executed
Actual: Adding another element with etc etc breaks all onPageLoad animations.

So apparently we must put all actions we want to run on page load into a single chain. Chains are unstable, I'd rather not use chains.
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SaveText

Jen Hoyte 12 aastat tagasi • uuendatud 12 aastat tagasi • 7
It does not appear that SaveText works if the app is made public.  What is supposed to happen?  Where is the text being saved?  and since it is public, will other people be able to see what someone else entered?  Thanks.
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Can I scale animations in the builder?

heather kilgour 12 aastat tagasi • uuendatud 12 aastat tagasi • 8
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Image dimensions

Karen DeCrane 12 aastat tagasi • uuendaja Inna Komarovsky 12 aastat tagasi • 2
I'm hung up on what dimensions I need to use. Let's take a simple one, iPad Retina vs iPad mini. According to Apple Developer docs, how I set my images depends on how InterAct manages the images - framework vs Cocoas for example. The logical part of me says I should use the exact iPad retina dimensions - 2048 x 1536 x 264 PPI. But if I use half of that for the iPad Mini - 1024 x 768 x 264 Apple will do the @2x files for the Retina automatically. 

So two questions - will doing the 1024 using Interact mean that my full size iPad Retina images will then be blurry? If not - why not? Please explain! Normally you can't take a small image and make it larger without losing definition and sharpness. Is it possible because of the engine behind Interact? 

Second question - what PPI should I use? Standard net based images are generally 72 PPI - that's about all typical monitors can show. But Apple uses a 264 standard and the newer Droids are 300 PPI and even more.

I asked this question in the webinar, but someone came to the door just as it was getting answered so I missed it.
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Inna Komarovsky 12 aastat tagasi
Hi Karen,

The dimensions we prefer are 1024x768 at 72 ppi, because this displays the app at good quality without having the app become too large due to very large image files. 72 ppi is the resolution that has been the standard for on-screen use for a while, and when 72 ppi images are displayed on higher resolution devices the images still look quite crisp. The dimensions of the older iPad were 1024x768, and the newer one has the larger pixel dimensions while maintaining the same screen size. So images with the 1024x768 dimensions look the same on both devices.

To help make a decision, you can make a couple of test apps at different sizes using the images that you plan to use in your app and see which version looks good to you and uses file sizes that you're comfortable with.

I hope this helps!
Inna
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My app is not displaying in interact player.com

Charmaine Anderson 12 aastat tagasi • uuendaja Ezra Weinstein (Administrator) 12 aastat tagasi • 6
After installing IB4 I tried viewing it in Interact mode but I don't see my app nor its icon displaying in interact player.com I tried previewing the current page and all pages but get the same experience.  Below is a screenshot of what I am seeing.  When I click the IB4 icon that is shown nothing happens.  My app is 93 pages so perhaps it might be choking on the size of my app?  (Hopefully not...) 
I did clear the history in Safari and rebooted the browser, still get the same issue.  I also tried sharing the app with myself and same thing happens.  I haven't tried resetting my password, still using the previous one.  Not sure if that could be the issue.  I do see a "player" folder in my apps folder, not sure if that matters. Thanks for your help.

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Charmaine, I'm closing this ticket since I responded to this in the other ticket, in the HelpDesk forum.
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How do I resync my app with the InteractPlayer website?

Data Command 12 aastat tagasi • uuendaja Inna Komarovsky 12 aastat tagasi • 6
When my app got converted up to 4 it automatically sync’ed to the InteractPlayer website.  I thought the upload might be incomplete, so I deleted it from the website.  Now how do I resync it up to the website?  I right clicked on the book and selected “Upload to InteractCloud” but the book did not show up there.
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New Instructions:

Log into the InteractPlayer web site
On the top right you will see a new option "Show Deleted Apps"
Check the box and then you will see your deleted app
Click the action menu under your app and you can click on "Undelete"