Story Book iOS App Template (iPad + iPhone)

Yes absolutely. Full source code is available to edit so that any additional frameworks can be integrated in the usual way.

With the Single App License you may use this code to create an app for the App Store. With the Unlimited App License you may use this code to create more than one app - for example if you have a series of books, or if you wish to publish separate localized versions of your app in different countries.

now i get it.. Thanks Chris!

Thanks, I'm glad you have found it useful :)

The animation transition effect and duration for the popup layer are defined in StoryBookViewController.m, under -(void)loadLayer.

Hi Barbara, You can follow Apple's step-by-step guides to set up your iPad for development so that you can test your app on a real device rather than the iOS Simulator. You can find Apple's documentation on the iOS Dev Center website at https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/

Hi Maxim. Yes that's correct, due to the different screen aspect ratios between iPad and iPhone, the images on iPhone are cropped slightly at the top and bottom. This is to allow the same set of images to be used for both devices, but without either device distorting/stretching the image.

You'd need to make a few modifications to allow for different images to be loaded on iPhone and iPad. But hopefully I can point you in the right direction. This IF STATEMENT allows the code to check which device the app is being run on:

if (UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad)
{
//iPad code here
}else{
//iPhone code here
}

You can use this IF STATEMENT around the code in -(void)loadPage and elsewhere in the code, to specify different filenames for each device.

Yeah it'd be possible. The quickest method I can think of involves adding two lines of code in StoryBookViewController.m.

Anywhere in '-(IBAction)readYES' add this line:
imageLayer.hidden=YES;

And anywhere in '-(IBAction)readNO' add this line:
imageLayer.hidden=NO;

Now the popup layer will only be shown if narration is off.

Thanks Chris for your help!
I'll try to implement it and let you know how it went?

Thanks,

Hi Chris,
It's working really well! Thanks for your tip!

If it's not to much to ask can you give the same tip for the background music? Basically I want background music only for the option "I read it myself".

Thanks again!

It'd certainly be possible, but maybe a bit more complicated. Currently the code which begins the playback of background music is called when the app launches, one solution might be to move the code from there into -(IBAction)readNo, but that's just a thought, not something I've tested, so it's possible there could be some unexpected issues caused by moving that code.

Hi Chris,
Thanks for you response! I guess the best way is to keep it the way it's now in order to prevent errors.

Thanks,

The button is within a scrollview, see this screenshot: http://www.codestore.co.uk/xcode.jpg

Hi Chris,

Yes, I found it. Thank you so much.

Peter Ong

Hi Peter. The easiest method to change the text on the buttons would be to edit the interface files, they are StoryBookViewController.xib (for iPhone) and StoryBookViewController-iPad.xib (for iPad). There you can edit the interface visually, find the buttons in the object browser and change their titles.