Small Ad Maker

The Small Ad Maker [or Threapmaker], is an easy way to create visual/audio items for an audience. This audience being friends or customers, available via email address, websites, or QR codes/NFC points.
The Small Ad Viewer is the counterpart, which is separately available. Please see that for details of viewing the Small Ad.

Please use these links to get more details and examples:-
https://sites.google.com/site/1bill2many/threap/maker
https://sites.google.com/site/1bill2many/threap/viewer
https://sites.google.com/site/1bill2many/threap
https://sites.google.com/site/1bill2many/threap/threapfaq

What you need:-
Email address of your target audience, or a website.
Alternatively - access to smartphones via NFC or 2D bar-codes.
Imagination to create your own visual items and group them.
Access to cloud storage of any sort – Dropbox, Ubuntu One, (your own is preferred!) to store your own items referenced by URL.
Access to cloud storage capable of downloading the initial file from URL to Android – I use Dropbox in my examples. Some other clouds will not download the initial file (they open it as text instead!).
Android device, 2.2 upwards.
A file manager app, if not already installed (there are free ones available).
Network coverage which is working.

The general procedure is as follows:-
Start the maker and begin to input suitable information: Threap Name (for your reference), Common Heading Text "Here is my Small Ad"; (you can choose text colours). Caption texts "Item 1", "Item 2", "Final item!" with chosen colours.

Now the important parts are URLs for your items; these can be taken from web images, or from your cloud storage, as long as they are published. You can use the Web and Local buttons to find these, or you can flip-flop back to your cloud apps to find URLs and copy them in.
Similar steps will be necessary for the audio files, if used (these go in the associated lower fields). Remembering that any local data must be published to the cloud to be visible to others at a later stage.

Use the Show Information button if you want to add other further items or links. The mail@to button will take you to your contacts to choose an email address. Generally the small buttons on the left are to copy in something that has been successfully picked up by a process; if it does not work then use the normal paste operation from the clipboard.

Use the Show Formatting button to change various settings, [this does not happen often]! You can change the Audience, or the start view amongst other things.
You will most often change the Web Start field because this will start you off correctly when using the Web button. You can input a web address, or a general search item, or nothing.
Use the [action overflow] menu key to access important processes, such as FETCH, SAVE [Local] and EXPORT. If you look at the tablet screenshots you will see a red arrow pointing to the far right bottom of the screen, the vertical dots are the menu key.
The final result must always be tested on the viewer, to ensure that all URL's are published and available.

N.B. I use Dropbox for the FINAL URLs used for downloads, these need to be slightly modified to force a download: the "www" changes to "dl" and there is a suffix of "?dl=1".
See this page https://www.dropbox.com/help/201/en

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

N.B.
Normal items such as pictures, audio, text etc. is handled within the app. More complicated items such as videos, PDFs, spreadsheets etc. have to be handled by associated applications – which need to be resident on the device.

Dropbox, or similar, short URL's are designed to be used with a browser, therefore they are handled indirectly by a browser! It is best to get the direct URL to the item concerned.