Periodical downloads and Newsstand in iOS 5
Apple finally included a highly desired feature in iOS 5, allowing for magazines and newspaper applications to download new issues while running in the background. This simple feature allows for users to have fresh content waiting upon launch of our app.
If we're designing a magazine, newspaper, or any other type of periodical, this will be a desirable feature and we'll need to make some small interface changes to accommodate. In this recipe, we'll take a look at what we'll need to do to help our application handle this new type of multitasking in iOS 5.
Getting ready
For this application, an iPad or iPhone device running our application will be desirable to help test the multitasking features of our app.
How to do it...
Designing an application to support background issue downloading and the interface change requirements associated with the new Newsstand feature are quite simple. In a few easy steps, our interface will be ready for Newsstand:
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