Newsstand function ios5 iPhone

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Newsstand is a new feature Apple has made specifically for digital publishing. It can put all the newspapers, newspapers, and marketing apps subscribed by users in a group icon.

The new API provides developers with the following common features provided by magazine publishing.

1. Download in the background. because the volume of data in a magazine is large, it usually requiresProgramWhen to download the file. In the past, these downloads only work when the magazine program is running.
Now, you can submit it to a dedicated download program. In addition, if the downloaded content is in ZIP or other compression formats, it can be automatically decompressed.


2. Badge notification. In the past, users needed to open the app to know the version update. Now, because it is integrated in newstand, the download is complete and the reader is automatically notified to read a new issue.


3. Read the interface, which has different requirements and needs to be implemented by yourself. There is no way to unify it.
Another advantage of using newstand is that the new album art can be used to replace the icon of the original app.


4. newsstand workflow. The server must first send a push notification to the newsstand program of the client. Connect the client program to the server and obtain the URL to download.
Submit the package to newsstand in the background and decompress the package as necessary. Finally, the client obtains the downloaded content from newsstand and moves them to the data zone of the program.
The rest will be handed over to the reading program handle.