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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

Employing the Project panel in Flash Professional CS5.5


It has traditionally been troublesome when attempting to design application layout in Flash Professional since it required the manual organization of various FLA files, along with some mechanism of synchronizing changes between them in code and asset management. Flash Professional CS5.5 attempts to alleviate much of this burden with a new Project structure, including the ability to share author time Flash Library assets across project documents.

How to do it…

We will configure a Flash Project, which will allow us to target multiple screen resolutions using the same shared asset pool across device-targeted FLAs:

  1. 1. Create a new Flash Professional project by opening the Project panel by selecting Create New | Flash Project on the welcome screen, or through File | New… | Flash Project from the application menu:

  2. 2. The Create New Project panel will appear, allowing us to configure a new Flash Project. We will provide a Project name, define...