I have the following requirements for an iPad App and would like to know if it's possible to implement them: Download ePub books and view them in iPads iBooks reader Install the downloaded book in the devices itunes library, so that they are accessibly from the iBooks applications ...
I am building an iPad application that needs to list books in a manner similar to the way Apple does it in their iBookstore application and how Marvel does it in their iPad application. I'm not talking about the main featured rotating images but rather the book listing below that. My question is looking at the book list, how are they b...
I am using AQGridView to build an iPad app that incorporates a flexible grid like that found in the Apple iBooks app or the Marvel and DC Comics apps. My question is has anyone used AQGridView and can help me with sheding some light on how to make a grid cell selection. It supposedly just makes a sub-class of UITableView but I can't seem...
I am currently displaying text in a uiwebview. However, I would like to allow a user to select text and perform some action with the selected text (google it). Apple has done this sort of thing with iBooks. When you click on a word you can choose to look up the word in a dictionary. How can I do the same thing with Webview? UIMenuContro...
Hi all. As we all knew that apple has put new iBook to read ebooks and for that they have provided so many good functionalities. my questions is have they provided any new api or sample to add such kind of functionality in our applications?? another things like page curling effect for the web views ,as it is not possible to give such ...
Hey guys I am making an app for an author (patrick rothfuss) and i would like to be able to link to his book in the itunes store by clicking a ui button. while I think i can set up the button and everything myself, I can't seem to find out what the link is. anyone have any idea how to do this? Thanks ...
I am working on a ebook reader application... i can able to work exactly as iBooks application does. I have used : CFURLRef pdfURL = CFBundleCopyResourceURL(CFBundleGetMainBundle(), CFSTR("paper.pdf"), NULL, NULL); pdf = CGPDFDocumentCreateWithURL((CFURLRef)pdfURL); CFRelease(pdfURL); - (void) renderPageAtIndexNSUInteger)index inCon...
Does anyone know of a php class that can create/export ePub files? I have a book stored in a mysql database and I wish to publish it as an ePub format book? It's a very basic book, simple text and chapters, and a few images. Any suggestions? ...
I am have some PDFs in my app. I want to provide an option to open those in other third party e-readers that might be installed on the device, like Stanza and iBooks. Dropbox application has successfully implemented this feature and I can't find any information on how to detect what other e-readers are available on the device or what t...
Hi, I'm trying to find a good way to make a tap show/hide my menus, in the same way as iBooks. I set up UITapGestureRecognizer to do this, but unfortunately it means then that none of the buttons on the screen work. I know I can use tapRecognizer.cancelsTouchesInView = NO; in order to allow the touches to go through, but then of cour...
Is there a way to achieve in iBooks an effect of Page float: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-gcpm/#page-floats I tried using {float: top page} but didn't work. Seems that is not supported. Would be very helpful for figures and pictures. Thanks ...
I am trying to build an application in which I need to divide the webpage into multiple pages. These pages will then be shown as the pages in a book, like the iBooks animation. First problem to tackle is to divide the webpage into multiple pages and able to view it separately. Any inputs will be helpful. ...
I am trying to show a book opening animation as in iBooks. Any inputs will be helpful. ...
Can someone tell me how to achieve iBooks Library turning effect.(Not the pages). Could that be achieved via Core Animation perhaps? ...
You guys get what I mean. I have no idea how to do this. There are no tutorials anywhere and so far I've spent about 4 hours on this to no avail. Can anyone point me to anything useful or give me a quick run down on how I would achieve this? Cheers. ...
Hi, any hints to implement ibook, stanza like iphone app? as ibook used private api then how about stanza, kobo? any documentation or sample code to refer? Thank you all... ...
So when you want to delete an app from the Home Screen, or delete a book from iBooks, when you get into "Edit Mode" there is a little itty bitty X in the upper left hand corner of the app icon/book/whatever. Is this button part of the SDK? And... if not (I'm pretty sure it isn't), does anybody know an Apple sample project that might c...
Does anyone know of an open source project or code samples that works like the PDF reader in iBooks? ...
I want users to be able to look up word definitions from inside my iPad App. Is there a way to access the English dictionary in iOS, the way iBooks does, or do I need to go to an outside API? ...