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Twixl Reader SDK - The Integration Tool Twixl Reader SDK allows for integration of the Twixl Reader technology into other app projects/custom developed applications: Customize to own purposes What is The Twixl Reader SDK? The Twixl Reader SDK is native Twixl code (for developers: a ‘static library’) that you can embed in your own custom app. You get the heart of Twixl's technology to use in your app. The Twixl Reader SDK enables you to read and display .publication files (Twixl's own interactive publishing file format) within your own app.
If you want to integrate the Twixl Reader SDK, this means you will always create your own fully customized app. You can use or integrate Twixl Publisher to create .publication files, but you will not build the final app with Twixl Publisher. You will build the final app yourself and you will integrate the Twixl Reader SDK to be able to read the .publication files. Note: Twixl Reader SDK can be used for InDesign content only and is publication-based only.
To understand what the Twixl Reader SDK is all about you should first understand how Twixl Publisher works. The Twixl Publisher solution consists of several components: After creating an interactive content in Adobe InDesign, including all interactive features, you convert everything into a .publication package file. What the SDK does is to provide the ability to interpret ("read") this .publication format in a custom-made app (it also supports displaying HPub files and PDF files). There are different ways to integrate the Twixl Reader SDK: the contents of .publication, HPub or PDF files. A typical example would be an app with your own custom kiosk/storefront, where you offer issues that have been created using Twixl Publisher. the app you can start external (native) code for e.g. a native game, an enriched advertisement that goes beyond what HTML5 can offer, etc.
Currently iOS (iPad/iPhone only) and Android (tablets/phones).
Because you want to: Because you want to be independent! 
Create a custom app that is able to read and display the contents of .publication files. A typical example would be an app with your own custom kiosk/storefront, where you offer publications that have been created using Twixl Publisher. Case 2 - Start and stop external (native) code from within .publication files. In this case the .publication will be the core of your app, but from within the publication you can start external (native) code for e.g. a game, an enriched advertisement that goes beyond what HTML5 can offer, etc. 
Many larger publishers have Adobe InDesign-based content that they want to convert into apps. They usually have InDesign content from the print version as well as interactive content, but they do not want to create a separate layout for mobile devices from scratch. They want to use template-based layouts so they can generate an optimized format for mobile devices (semi-automatically). The Twixl publishing format (.publication) is an open specification, documented and available for Twixl Publisher and SDK licensees. It allows the functionality of Twixl's InDesign plugin to be integrated in a larger workflow. The open Twixl Publisher publishing format enables you to translate Adobe InDesign and interactive content files into a readable format for mobile devices and the Twixl Reader SDK lets you integrate a reader in your custom app that can than read this format. Apart from creation process, content publishers have specific needs for their apps and they often turn to custom-developed apps, because that way they can easily integrate specific shop features, cross-selling features, etc., but they still need to show content files within these apps. Twixl Publisher enables them to produce these content files and the Twixl Reader SDK makes it possible to display these Twixl Publisher .publication files within these custom apps. 
- With Full Twixl Publisher and Reader SDK Integration The Twixl Reader SDK can be integrated in any type of app (productivity app, game app, functional app or content app) that also needs to display content in such a way that document layout is paramount. Agencies and developers that are developing custom apps can integrate the Twixl Reader SDK in their apps to be able to read content that originated in Adobe InDesign. A native game app could use the Twixl Reader SDK to display an interactive user manual created in InDesign, and enhanced with the Twixl Publisher plug-in. A native shopping app could embed product brochures made in Adobe InDesign. A native presentation app could integrate InDesign content enhanced with the Twixl Publisher plug-in, but could also include the option of displaying sophisticated 3D renderings (that would not be possible in a web viewer). Combining native development with layout-based interactive content (translated into .publication files using Twixl Publisher) allows developers and agencies to be very cost-effective, to recycle existing materials and to work with different types of profiles (creative designers and web developers) on the same project.  |
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