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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 with multimedia, and handling application layout. Essential tasks such as tapping into native processes and manipulating the file system are also covered. We then move on to some cool advanced stuff such as Android-specific device permissions, application debugging and optimization techniques, and the packaging and distribution options available on the mobile Android platform.
In a nutshell, this cookbook enables you to get quickly up to speed with mobile Android development using the Flash Platform in ways that are meaningful and immediately applicable to the rapidly growing area of mobile application development.
Take your Flash applications beyond the desktop and into the emerging world of mobile application development
What you will learn from this book :
Configure Flash Professional, Flash Builder, or FDT to develop Android applications cross-platform regardless of operating system
Convert Flex and ActionScript projects to true mobile experiences
Work with multitouch and gestures for a truly innovative user experience
Use the geolocation and accelerometer sensors to respond to location and movement
Make use of the built-in microphone and camera hardware for user generated content
Stream audio and video to an application using a variety of protocols
Use advanced image display and modifications using custom shaders
Effectively scale and position the interface elements across devices
Employ a variety of URI handlers to invoke native SMS, telephone, e-mail, maps, and more
Work with the Android file system and manage application databases easily
Compile and submit your application or game to the ever growing, worldwide Android Market
Approach
Written in cookbook style, this book offers solutions to all common Flash Android development problems through recipes. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions followed by analysis of what was done in each task and other useful information. The book is designed so that you can read it chapter by chapter, or you can look at the list of recipes and refer to them in no particular order.
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 with multimedia, and handling application layout. Essential tasks such as tapping into native processes and manipulating the file system are also covered. We then move on to some cool advanced stuff such as Android-specific device permissions, application debugging and optimization techniques, and the packaging and distribution options available on the mobile Android platform.
In a nutshell, this cookbook enables you to get quickly up to speed with mobile Android development using the Flash Platform in ways that are meaningful and immediately applicable to the rapidly growing area of mobile application development.
Take your Flash applications beyond the desktop and into the emerging world of mobile application development
What you will learn from this book :
Configure Flash Professional, Flash Builder, or FDT to develop Android applications cross-platform regardless of operating system
Convert Flex and ActionScript projects to true mobile experiences
Work with multitouch and gestures for a truly innovative user experience
Use the geolocation and accelerometer sensors to respond to location and movement
Make use of the built-in microphone and camera hardware for user generated content
Stream audio and video to an application using a variety of protocols
Use advanced image display and modifications using custom shaders
Effectively scale and position the interface elements across devices
Employ a variety of URI handlers to invoke native SMS, telephone, e-mail, maps, and more
Work with the Android file system and manage application databases easily
Compile and submit your application or game to the ever growing, worldwide Android Market
Approach
Written in cookbook style, this book offers solutions to all common Flash Android development problems through recipes. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions followed by analysis of what was done in each task and other useful information. The book is designed so that you can read it chapter by chapter, or you can look at the list of recipes and refer to them in no particular order.
About the Author
Joseph Labrecque
Joseph Labrecque is primarily employed by the University of Denver as a senior interactive software developer specializing in the Adobe Flash Platform, where he produces innovative academic toolsets for both traditional desktop environments and emerging mobile spaces. Alongside this principal role; he often serves as adjunct faculty, communicating upon a variety of Flash Platform solutions and general Web design and development subjects.
In addition to his accomplishments in higher education, Joseph is the proprietor of Fractured Vision Media, LLC; a digital media production company, technical consultancy, and distribution vehicle for his creative works. He is founder and sole abiding member of the dark ambient recording project "An Early Morning Letter, Displaced" whose releases have received international award nominations and underground acclaim.
Joseph has contributed to a number of respected community publications as an article writer and video tutorialist. He regularly speaks at user group meetings and industry conferences such as Adobe MAX, FITC, and D2WC. In 2010, he received an Adobe Impact Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the education community. He has served as an Adobe Education Leader since 2008 and is also a 2011 Adobe Community Professional.
Visit him on the Web at http://memoryspiral.com/.
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Format:Paperback
All those Flash and Flex developers who are concerned about being sidelined by the mobile revolution need fret no longer. What they need to do is get a copy of the indispensible resource, Flash Development for Android Cookbook, by Joseph Lebracqu. As the title suggests, the book walks the reader through easy-to-follow exercises, each targeting a different , core aspect of mobile development. For example, chapter 2 is all about Actionscript Classses specific to the mobile experience, where there is no mouse. And so, we have Multitouch and Gesture Events. By Chapter 5, you are already ramped up to using audio and video, and tapping into the media stored on the Android device. And of course, tapping into the debice's GPS capabilities for creating uniquely mobile apps is also covered. Best of al -- and this cannot be emphasized enough -- the resulting apps are not simply running in the Flash player. The cookbook shows how to use the Air SDK running in conjunction with either Flash SC5.5 or Flash Develop 4.5 to compile your apps into native Android file format. The result are real Android apps--not just Flash Player running on an Android device. The only caveat here is that the reader must be at least intermediate level in Flash Actionscript 3. Knowledge of AS 3, and its events, functions and data-typing are assumed. That said, the material is logically presented and clearly explained, making it as easy as possible to follow this inherently advanced material. The reader will benefit greatly from owning a copy of Flash Pro CS5.5, and/or Flash Develop 4.5 (although it is possible to develop without these). Naturally, a current Android enabled device to test ones apps is also a must, preferably both a tablet and a phone. The serious-minded developer will also have to put the time in, but these are very worthwhile investments -- so roll up your sleeves and get ready to dive in to the world of Flash Development for Android.
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This book provides you with everything you need to start developing programs and games on android using Adobe AIR, assuming you already have some knowledge in ActionScript.
It shows short "recipes" on how to interface with everything that you would want to on the phone, from gestures, drawing, acceleration and geolocation, camera, microphone, images, video, audio, local storage and SQLLite, to even putting the final app on the market.
Every recipe is well written, and specific to the interface you will be looking for, so you can easily find how to use the accelerometer, or load up the browser within your app. Most examples show how to do everything in Flash Builder (Flex), Flash `professional', FDT, and even command line, so you have many options (although the code will work well in any of them).
The only negative I found with the book is that in Chapter 1, you learn how to compile, and run a program on Android, but Chapter 10 is when it actually goes into debugging, and setting up different configurations for testing your app. I wasn't sure how to have the app test run in Windows instead of running on my Android directly until that chapter (although it is a cookbook- you pick which chapter is relevant what you're trying to do).
If you have built applications or games using Flash/Flex before, and would like to have a version running on Android, this book will give you all the information you need, and is a great reference as well!
Get it now to get your Flash apps running on Android!
It shows short "recipes" on how to interface with everything that you would want to on the phone, from gestures, drawing, acceleration and geolocation, camera, microphone, images, video, audio, local storage and SQLLite, to even putting the final app on the market.
Every recipe is well written, and specific to the interface you will be looking for, so you can easily find how to use the accelerometer, or load up the browser within your app. Most examples show how to do everything in Flash Builder (Flex), Flash `professional', FDT, and even command line, so you have many options (although the code will work well in any of them).
The only negative I found with the book is that in Chapter 1, you learn how to compile, and run a program on Android, but Chapter 10 is when it actually goes into debugging, and setting up different configurations for testing your app. I wasn't sure how to have the app test run in Windows instead of running on my Android directly until that chapter (although it is a cookbook- you pick which chapter is relevant what you're trying to do).
If you have built applications or games using Flash/Flex before, and would like to have a version running on Android, this book will give you all the information you need, and is a great reference as well!
Get it now to get your Flash apps running on Android!
Format:Paperback
For any Flash or Flex developer looking to create applications for mobile (in particular Android ones) then this is a great book to have on your desk! Weighing in at 372 pages, there is a lot of content in there just waiting for you to try out and play with.
First things first, this is a Cookbook. It's not a reference title listing every single API and documenting every single class available. Though to be honest, it seems to cover most of the new AIR for Android features. The idea behind a Cookbook is to provide you with a selection of `recipes' or common tasks, and then explain how to go about solving them in a clear and concise way. This book does this brilliantly. It is the sort of book you can dib into when you have a specific thing to get done in your app and you're not sure where to start. Having said that, I basically read it from cover to cover, and still found it very informative and enjoyable.
All the chapters are equally important and cover a wide range of features, but which ones you'll actually need to use will depend on your project and what you are trying to achieve. Although the title of this book specifies Android, most of the code in this book will work equally well on iOS devices and the BlackBerry PlayBook. That's the joy of developing using ActionScript and AIR!
I was particularly pleased to see that nearly all the code examples were IDE agnostic and didn't tie you in to the Flex framework. They concentrated on using pure ActionScript in whatever IDE you feel comfortable working in. In fact, Joseph even went to the trouble of explaining any IDE specific stuff using example in Flash Pro CS5.5, Flash Builder 4.5 and FDT 4.1.
Once you have had a flick through at some of the examples it quickly becomes clear that Adobe have done a really good job at providing a consistent and logical API for achieving all these new mobile specific things. And this book does a great job of demystifying it all.
My one criticism would be that there is quite a lot of repetitive code (about 14 lines) in each example, where Joseph sets up an output textfield (and accompanying textformat) for demonstration purposes. But I guess I noticed it more because I was reading the book straight through (not how it was intended to be read). At least this way, each `recipe' or example is self contained and provides everything you need to get you up and running easily.
I did notice a few errors here and there (code and layout), but nothing too serious that would cause you issues.
I'd thoroughly recommend this title to anyone who is interested in creating mobile apps for either Android, iOS or PlayBook using AIR and ActionScript.
First things first, this is a Cookbook. It's not a reference title listing every single API and documenting every single class available. Though to be honest, it seems to cover most of the new AIR for Android features. The idea behind a Cookbook is to provide you with a selection of `recipes' or common tasks, and then explain how to go about solving them in a clear and concise way. This book does this brilliantly. It is the sort of book you can dib into when you have a specific thing to get done in your app and you're not sure where to start. Having said that, I basically read it from cover to cover, and still found it very informative and enjoyable.
All the chapters are equally important and cover a wide range of features, but which ones you'll actually need to use will depend on your project and what you are trying to achieve. Although the title of this book specifies Android, most of the code in this book will work equally well on iOS devices and the BlackBerry PlayBook. That's the joy of developing using ActionScript and AIR!
I was particularly pleased to see that nearly all the code examples were IDE agnostic and didn't tie you in to the Flex framework. They concentrated on using pure ActionScript in whatever IDE you feel comfortable working in. In fact, Joseph even went to the trouble of explaining any IDE specific stuff using example in Flash Pro CS5.5, Flash Builder 4.5 and FDT 4.1.
Once you have had a flick through at some of the examples it quickly becomes clear that Adobe have done a really good job at providing a consistent and logical API for achieving all these new mobile specific things. And this book does a great job of demystifying it all.
My one criticism would be that there is quite a lot of repetitive code (about 14 lines) in each example, where Joseph sets up an output textfield (and accompanying textformat) for demonstration purposes. But I guess I noticed it more because I was reading the book straight through (not how it was intended to be read). At least this way, each `recipe' or example is self contained and provides everything you need to get you up and running easily.
I did notice a few errors here and there (code and layout), but nothing too serious that would cause you issues.
I'd thoroughly recommend this title to anyone who is interested in creating mobile apps for either Android, iOS or PlayBook using AIR and ActionScript.
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