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Flash iOS Apps Cookbook

By : Christopher Caleb
Book Image

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

Opening a web page within Safari


AIR for iOS makes it possible to display web pages to the user. For many situations, the simplest solution is to launch Safari (the device's native web browser) from your app. Many applications take this approach and once the user is finished with the page, they can move back to their app using the app switcher.

Let us see how to load a web page into Safari from an AIR for iOS app.

Getting ready

From the book's accompanying code bundle, open chapter11\recipe1\recipe.fla into Flash Professional and use it as a starting point.

Sitting on the stage is a movie clip with an instance name of twitterBtn. The movie clip's library symbol is linked to a class named Button, which was introduced in the Handling user interaction recipe from Chapter 4.

Let us write some ActionScript to load www.twitter.com into Safari when the button is pressed.

How to do it...

We will utilize the package-level navigateToURL() function to launch Safari. Carry out the following steps:

  1. Create...