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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

Using a splash screen within a Flex mobile application


Adobe AIR for Android is an excellent runtime for building and distributing Android applications, but there are some trade-offs in comparison to native development. Depending upon the size of your application, it may take a few seconds to load everything up for the user. The mobile Flex framework allows us to define a splash screen to let the user know that the application is loading once they launch, and to add an extra bit of flourish to the entire experience.

How to do it…

We will configure our application to display a splash screen while the application loading process takes place:

  1. 1. Upon defining our Flex mobile project, we will need to be sure the ViewNavigatorApplication or TabbedViewNavigatorApplication (depending upon your project) is the currently selected MXML tag and enter Design view.

  2. 2. Next, we will modify a few settings within the Common area of our Properties panel. Here, browse to an image file to embed a Splash image...