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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

Establishing Android custom URI schemes


Android exposes a number of useful URI protocols to AIR for standard operations such as mapping, sms, and telephone. Defining a custom URI for our application allows it to be invoked from anywhere on the system: through the web browser, email, or even a native application. Custom URIs provides an alternative method of invoking an AIR application.

How to do it...

We will create an application that can be opened from the device web browser using a custom URI. We define the URI intent settings through modification of the AIR descriptor file:

  1. 1. Find the AIR descriptor file in your project. It is normally named something like {MyProject}-app.xml as it resides at the project root.

  2. 2. Browse the file for a node named <android>; within this node will be another called <manifestAdditions>, which holds a child node called <manifest>. This section of the document contains everything we need to set permissions for our Android application.

  3. 3. We will...