Alternative: Shout-Em

 Competing Options: ShoutEm

There doesn't seem to be a lot of competing affordable alternatives. This seemed to be a possibility, so I did a bit of investigating. ShoutEm is not intended to be used for this sort of app, so I place no blame on them for the level of success related to re-purposing it in this way.

While ShoutEm doesn't seem ideal for this project, there may be quite a few other possible projects I could imagine them being utilized for in the future.

Disappointing Results with DPS & Apple

After spending two more days trying to publish, I;ve found additional problems, and solutions that don't seem to work. While I was able to find a version of Xcode for my version of Mac OSX, apparently, that was a waste of time, because through reading forums of people having similar problems, you can only submit apps created with certificates from whatever the newest version of Mac OSX.

After borrowing a computer from some one else, installing the most recent version of Xcode, and trying to resumbit it, hat isn't working either. So, back to researching how to get something submitted to Apple. It's extremely frustrating that you can spend almost as much time trying to submit the app as actually making one. Its also frustrating that neither the materials from Apple nor Adobe state these restrictions and limitations.

I've also sent emails to Apple requesting some help with whats going wrong, but haven't recieved any replies.

Working through Adobe DPS

Adobe has produced a guide to publishing through their Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition. There's not as much content yet as I'd like, but my thought is submit what is done to get it started on the App Store and continue to develop it. The image above is the front image for the guide to submit the iPad app to Apple. It's not exactly a five minute read. You can see the contents below, listing the number of pages filled with tasks to complete the process:

I've spent a lot of hours working through the publishing process. You can see how far I got through the checklist below. I'm using an older version of Mac OSX, so it was a rather timeconsuming to find and download the right version of Xcode. Once finding it, the download was fun too, being over a gig. Click on the image below to see the full size.

Even after spending most of today and last Saturday working on it, am having trouble getting Apple to accept it. Apples system is not accepting the certificates created earlier in the process. I'm going to have to do some research and trouble shooting.

App Content Update

Just an update to some of the content in the App.

Version 3

Version 3

Redesign + Generation of Content. This redesign utilizes only content created by me and/or public domain/creative commons content.

Content Mock-Up

Quick experimental mockup for content using InDesign CC. Overall, I like the look, but it may be less unapproachable if the audience is students. This approach was not continued.

All imagery is creative commons or public domain.  The article is from Scientific American, which the data and information was originally presented in Nature. The video at the start is a short snippet from footage in Antarctica by Darek Sepiolo.

iPad Test

Images of the Antarctica Prototype on the iPad in both vertical and horizontal orientation. Use the right and left arrow at the bottom of the presentation module below to see the images.

v. 2: Working with Multi-Orientation

Second major version of mockup

This version of the mockup was transferred to a local iPad as a testing & development app. It was presented to my advisor on the actual iPad as the developer app. No major content generated at this point. However, successful implementation of the multiple-orientation features in Adobe InDesign as well as a few InDesign Digital Publishing Suite features.

Nearly all features behaved as intended, and only minor changes were needed for functionality.

All imagery is creative commons or public domain. 

Initial Mockup

Discussion of a mockup for a public education outreach app on Antarctica. 

This mock up is created with Adobe InDesign CS6. It utilizes digital publishing tools for Android and iPad tablets new to Adobe Indesign in CS5.5 & CS6. The first couple iterations of this version have not been test on the iPad.

This version of the app was emailed as a Flash .swf file to my supervisor/advisor. It was intended to have a video at the start, but apparently they don't embed themselves into the .swf flash file, however, in actual app files it can be embedded. The idea of having a video was later removed due to other concerns.

All imagery is creative commons or public domain.