Is there solution for subscription based payments in Corona (monthly magazine)

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi,

I have been asked by a friend if its possible to develop a app to sell her magazine via.

I know NewsStand is what Apple say to use but can we develop NewsStand apps (I searched but couldn’t find anything) ?

I have sent a email to Kwik to see if it’s something I can do with their solution. I see you can create magazines in it but not sure if you can do multiple per app.

I see you can do subscription based IAP but it looks very complicated delivering products to your app. you basically need your own server etc…

Bottom of this page explains it (Server Product Model) - http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/StoreKitGuide/APIOverview/OverviewoftheStoreKitAPI.html

Any other ideas welcome.

Dave [import]uid: 117617 topic_id: 28650 reply_id: 328650[/import]

#2

Dave, I can get a Corona app to show up in newsstand. It’s just a few keys in the build.settings plist. We can get push notifications working.

What I’m unsure of is changing the icon to the issue cover. Also issues are typically downloaded as zip files to the caches folder, though I don’t think that’s a requirement. We can’t unzip stuff at the moment.

The biggest hold back is background downloading, which is what push notifications are for requires the app to be in the background and I don’t know if we can do that or not.
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#3

Thanks Rob.

Just been reading up on NewsStand, looks like you can use PDF documents for the download but as you say icon changes and background downloads will be a issue.

Looks like the only way to go is IAP and a custom app but would need own server and code for subscriptions and delivering content that isn’t already in the App.

There are a few frameworks on GitHub for the server side but could be a almighty hassle.

Dave [import]uid: 117617 topic_id: 28650 reply_id: 115528[/import]

#4

Right or wrong, in iOS 6 - Apple provide space for content to be downloaded.

Joakim [import]uid: 81188 topic_id: 28650 reply_id: 115531[/import]

#5

Been downloading some magazine type apps and so far the only one I can find that does something simular to what I want (without using NewsStand) is net-a-porter. Lovely looking app and each issue is downloaded separately and can be removed etc…

Dave [import]uid: 117617 topic_id: 28650 reply_id: 115603[/import]