About ebook making

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Hello, do you know how to make a simple ebook in iPhone with Unity? It is quite strange to do it with Unity but I know nothing about xcode. Is it possible? Thanks.

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Sure, anything is possible, but you are probably better off downloading a bunch of SDK examples from Apple and doing it native. Interface Builder is a good place to start.

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Hi cheezorg, you mean I could combine the Interface Builder (xcode sdk) with unity3d?? Could you give me some hints or tutorial link? Since I have no idea to start at all …

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Since unity has no Search Bar, Tab Bar and UIView like the native xcode.

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As much as I love Unity, it would be a very poor choice in this case. Learn Xcode and do it natively.

–Eric

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we realized with Unity a comics book visualizer that works very well.

So if you want to use ebooks pages like textures you can do it in Unity.

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There is an easier way than unity…
My first app in the AppStore was “Easy Pasta”, I knew nothing about “real coding” and unity iphone wasn’t out yet, so thanks to “survival” instinct i found a easy way of doing it with HTML.
With just a few lines of codes in Xcode (like 4) you can make a program that loads from the iphone memory a HTML site, at that point you can structure your book in HTML, with page formatting etc.
This requires no unity and a few minutes work in Xcode, plus all the work you want to do in HTML. ( I used dreamweaver)

Here you can find some great video tutorial, some of them are about loading a webview:
http://www.iphonedevcentral.org/viewtutorials.php?page=Tutorials&cmd=ViewAll&number=1

Hope it helps and bye

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Thanks taio84. But how did you manage to run it without an internet connection in the latest version of easy pasta are you locally running the webpage ??

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Eh yes, from the beginning I could run the “html site” locally, I hate softwares that REQUIRE internet connection to work (obviously with exceptions…)…

I’ve attached EasyPasta Xcode project (no Html site do), you’ll see all the “code” required to load the site locally.
In the “MainView.m” file there is the code to load the site locally.
Would suggest do to follow the “UiWeb view” tutorial on the link I posted before wich explains some basic things about how to connect windows and views in Xcode.

175790–6285–$easy_pasta_copia_407.zip (384 KB)

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THANKS A LOT taio84, if it works the way i expected it to then lots of iPhone Apps coming up … have been developing websites for 12 years now somehow i just cant manage objective-c. Thanks a lot seriously

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http://www.west-racing.com/mf/?page_id=4642