Friday, May 6, 2011

Introducing the NAVTEQ LocationPoint™ Advertising Web App API!

Hey Developers!

The NAVTEQ LocationPoint™ Advertising Web App API is now up and ready and waiting for you to use!

What is the NAVTEQ LocationPoint™ Advertising Web App API? Simply put, it is a way to quickly and easily implement NAVTEQ LocationPoint™ Advertising into your existing iPhone or Android mobile app.

What we have to offer:

First of all, NN4D.com has a whole section dedicated to LocationPoint™ Advertising that you can visit at http://nn4d.com/lpa , however, since you are a Developer, you are probably most interested in the documentation and sample code so you can quickly implement LPA.

To get the documentation and sample code, you will want to go to the “Documentation and Case Studies” page at this link  It is there you will find all of our documentation for LocationPoint™ Advertising

What kind of documentation?  We have posted:
  • Quick Start Guide
  • API Specifications
  • Integration Guidelines (HTTP connection)
  • Best Practices (User Interface)
  • Phone Source Code and tutorial
  • Android Source Code and tutorial
  • Android Demo Application
  • Web App API Deployment Guide

Whew, that is a bunch of stuff we got there!

Let’s break it down even further and highlight some of the parts that you might be specifically interested in.

For the iPhone developers, you are going to want to make sure to download the iPhone Source Code and tutorial (NN4D registration required) This download includes documentation on The” WebApp API Sample App (iPhone)” which is, according to the documentation,  a “reference application that illustrates API best usage and  practices and thus provides developers an example for kinds of applications that can be built around the WebApp API”. Along with the documentation comes the actual xcode project of the iPhone WebApp API Sample App, so by using these two pieces (documentation and sample code) you can get up and coding on this right away.

For the Android developers, you are going to want to download the Android Source Code and tutorial  (NN4D registration required). Like the iPhone download, the Android download includes documentation to help you get started with the Android version of the WebApp Demo Application project.(Which is a Jar package included in the download.)

Another really cool thing we have posted on the Documentation and Case Studies page is a sample .apk file  you can download and install on your Android phone! (NN4D registration required) Yes, by downloading the Android Demo Application, you get a working demo app that shows you the user experience provided by the NAVTEQ LocationPoint™ Advertising Web App. Instructions on how to install the .apk file onto your device are provided in the .zip file.

One more thing you are going to need before you can use the NAVTEQ LocationPoint™ Advertising Web App is an affiliateID. The affiliateID is what you need to add to the sample code examples to get them to work. To get an affiliateID , you just have to email us with some basic info. To find out the email address and what info we need, check out chapter 4 – Obtaining Your Own Affiliate ID - in the Quick Start Guide  found on the Documentation and Case Studies page.

If you have any technical questions on how to get all this stuff to work, feel free to post them to the forum and we will answer them right away.

Have fun and check out this video for the full LocationPoint™ Advertising experience!



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