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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

Converting vectors to bitmaps


Most Flash projects take full advantage of Flash's vector rendering engine and timeline animation system. Rendering vector content, however, can be computationally expensive, particularly with complex vector shapes that contain a large number of control points, gradients, and alpha transparency.

Although even a modest desktop computer can easily render the vector graphics found in most Flash projects; mobile devices are optimized for bitmap graphics meaning compromises need to be made sometimes. Drawing bitmaps is typically less expensive than vectors.

Where performance is critical, consider converting complex vector artwork into bitmaps. If your project already contains existing vector content, then you can use Flash Professional to produce bitmaps from each library symbol. You can then replace your vector content with the bitmap renditions.

Let us see how this is done.

Getting ready

An FLA has been provided as a starting point for this recipe.

From Flash Professional...