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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

AIR for iOS general settings


Flash requires a little more information before it can compile your FLA into a native iOS app. First, you will need to specify some general iOS settings, which we will now cover.

Getting ready

We will continue to work from bubbles.fla.

How to do it...

When working from an AIR for iOS document, an additional settings panel is made available from Flash Professional. From it, you will be able to apply some iOS specifics that will be used by Flash when outputting a native iOS app.

Select File | AIR for iOS Settings to open the panel. Ensure that the General tab is selected.

Tip

If you are using Flash Professional CS5, select File | iPhone OS Settings instead. Remember, CS5 uses the term iPhone OS whereas CS5.5 refers to it as AIR for iOS.

Within the AIR for iOS Settings panel, options can be set for the following fields:

Option

Description

Output file

The file name for your native iOS app

App name

The name of your app

Version

A version number for your app...