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Easily create cross-platform, standalone native applications for mobile devices using AIR
AIR allows you to develop the rich, creative, interactive media experiences for mobile applications. This easy-to-follow guide covers everything you need to know to create rich mobile applications using Adobe Flash Builder. Packed with examples, this book shows you how to build applications for mobile devices using a combination of ActionScript, the Flex framework and AIR. You’ll discover how these applications are able to run across multiple mobile and tablet devices, targeting Google Android, Apple iOS, and BlackBerry platforms. Plus, hands-on instructions detail how to leverage the unique hardware and software features that are available to each various device and platform.
- Serves an ideal starting point for learning to create rich, interactive applications for mobile devices
- Includes hands-on examples that demonstrate how to Read More ...
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Developing iOS applications using Adobe Flex 4.5 for mobile will walk you through creating your Flex based iPhone/iPad application. Next, you will learn how to interact with the devices camera, gallery, accelerometer, GPS, multi touch display and native services using Adobe Flex 4.5. Finally, you will learn how to compile your application and deploy to the app store.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Hello World
Chapter 2 Application Layouts
Chapter 3 Configuration Settings
Chapter 4 Exploring the APIs
Chapter 5 Working with the File System
Chapter 6 OS Interactions
Chapter 7 Designing for iOS
Chapter Publish to iOS Installer
About the Author
Rich Tretola, an award-winning Flex developer, is the Rich Applications Technical Lead at Herff Jones Inc. He has been building internet apps for over a decade, and has worked with Flex since the original Royale beta was introduced in Read More ...
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Flash has now arrived to Android — the fastest growing smartphone platform. This offers massive opportunities for Flash developers who want to get into mobile development. At the same time, working on smartphones will introduce new challenges and issues that Flash developers may not be familiar with.
The Flash Development for Android Cookbook enables Flash developers to branch out into Android mobile applications through a set of essential, easily demonstrable recipes. It takes you through the entire development workflow: from setting up a local development environment, to developing and testing your application, to compiling for distribution to the ever-growing Android Market.
The Flash Development for Android Cookbook starts off with recipes that cover development environment configuration as well as mobile project creation and conversion. It then moves on to exciting topics such as the use of touch and gestures, responding to device movement in 3D space, working Read More ...
Book Description
Ready to put your ActionScript 3 skills to work on mobile apps? This hands-on book walks you through the process of creating an Adobe AIR application from start to finish, using the Flex 4.5 framework. Move quickly from a basic Hello World application to complex interactions with Android APIs, and get complete code examples for working with Android device components—GPS, camera, gallery, accelerometer, multitouch display, and OS interactions. No matter how much Flex experience you have, this book is the ideal resource.
- Use Flash Builder 4.5 to create and debug a Flex Mobile project
- Choose a layout option to determine which files Flash Builder auto-generates
- Select permissions that control which devices can install your app from the Android Market
- Explore APIs that enable your app to interact with specific Android OS features
- Learn how to read and write text files, browse the file system for media files, and create and write to an Read More ...
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