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Flash iOS Apps Cookbook

By : Christopher Caleb
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Flash iOS Apps Cookbook

By: Christopher Caleb

Overview of this book

The latest version of Flash Professional can directly target iOS, allowing Flash developers to write applications that will run natively on Apple's iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. What's more, with Apple loosening its restrictions on third-party technologies, apps written in Flash can now be sold and distributed within the App Store.Flash iOS Apps Cookbook provides the recipes required to build native iOS apps using your existing knowledge of the Flash platform. Whether you want to create something new or simply convert an existing Flash project, the relevant steps and techniques will be covered, helping you achieve your goal.Learn how to configure and use Flash Professional for iOS development by writing and deploying a simple app to a device. Implement many iOS-specific features such a multi-touch, the virtual keyboard, camera support, screen orientation and the Retina display. Overcome the limitations of mobile development by mastering hardware acceleration and optimization. Whether you're an enthusiast or professional developer, the Flash iOS Apps Cookbook is your toolkit to creating high-quality content for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Flash iOS Apps Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Apple prohibits the installation of third-party plugins on iOS, preventing Safari or any other browser from running Flash content. Unfortunately, this prevents those using iOS devices from accessing the thousands of popular web-based Flash games and applications that are out there.

Until recently, the growing popularity of iOS had left Flash developers, who were wishing to deliver their existing content to Apple's platform, in a difficult position. The only realistic solution was to completely rewrite their projects for iOS using Objective-C, while continuing to maintain the existing ActionScript codebase for web users on other platforms.

However, one of the primary advantages of AIR for iOS is that developers can re-publish their existing Flash-enabled content as native iOS apps while leaving much of the project's codebase untouched. Adobe's multi-platform goal for the Flash Platform has meant that Flash developers can target iOS while using the same development environment that...