You need to have:
- an Apple iPhone Developer Account(so that you can sell your ebook app at your price of choice)
- an Intel Mac computer with the latest iPhone SDK installed and set up for app development
- basic knowledge on compiling an iPhone App, signing it with your distribution profile, and uploading it to iTunesConnect – there are countless step-by-step online tutorials on this
- no Objective-C experience required, only basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, XML
To use the TouchBooksReader framework for your book, your content must be ready in a HTML format designed for the iPhone & iPad screens:
- one html file for each chapter in your book
- limited(preferably none) use of css styles(tbr will provide default css files – that you can change at will)
- no fixed font sizes (all font sizes used must be defined as percentages off the body font-size, so that the user can increase/decrease font sizes)
- limited link use(footnotes, external links that quit the app). Images must be carefully tested to look nice on both iPhone&iPad. Some javascripts will work, under careful use.
In addition to the html chapters, you will need artwork ready for your app’s icons, splash screens and background images.
