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Flash Development for Android Cookbook

By : Joseph Labrecque
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Flash Development for Android Cookbook

By: Joseph Labrecque

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Flash Development for Android Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Compiling an application when using FDT


Compiling a project to an Android release version .apk file is the final step before distributing an application over the Android Market or some alternate channel. There are many methods of doing this depending upon what tool is being used. In this recipe, we will discuss three popular methods available to us when using Powerflasher FDT to compile and package our application.

How to do it...

As of this writing, FDT does not support working with AIR for Android in a direct way. There are, however, three main methods in which FDT users can compile their projects for Android distribution.

Using a mobile project template

The FDT community has produced a number of mobile project templates that support AIR for Android. These templates work with the new template system used by all FDT projects and add varying levels of functionality to the workflow. Most of these also include ANT scripts, which compile an .apk using the AIR Developer Tool.

Using ANT

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