Flash Development for Android Cookbook

简介 Book Description
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.

Take your Flash applications beyond the desktop and into the emerging world of mobile application development.

Over 100 recipes to build exciting Android applications with Flash, Flex, and AIR

The quickest way to solve your problems with building Flash applications for Android
Contains a variety of recipes to demonstrate mobile Android concepts and provide a solid foundation for your ideas to grow
Learn from a practical set of examples how to take advantage of multitouch, geolocation, the accelerometer, and more
Optimize and configure your application for worldwide distribution through the Android Market
Part of Packt’s Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible

What you will learn from this book

Configure Flash Professional, Flash Builder, or FDT to develop Android applications cross-platform regardless of operating system
Convert Flex and ActionScript projects to true mobile experiences
Work with multitouch and gestures for a truly innovative user experience
Use the geolocation and accelerometer sensors to respond to location and movement
Make use of the built-in microphone and camera hardware for user generated content
Stream audio and video to an application using a variety of protocols
Use advanced image display and modifications using custom shaders
Effectively scale and position the interface elements across devices
Employ a variety of URI handlers to invoke native SMS, telephone, e-mail, maps, and more
Work with the Android file system and manage application databases easily
Compile and submit your application or game to the ever growing, worldwide Android Market

Approach

Written in cookbook style, this book offers solutions to all common Flash Android development problems through recipes. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions followed by analysis of what was done in each task and other useful information. The book is designed so that you can read it chapter by chapter, or you can look at the list of recipes and refer to them in no particular order.

Who this book is written for

This book contains recipes covering a variety of topics from the very simple to those that are more advanced. If you are a seasoned Flash developer, this book will get you quickly up to speed with what is possible with Android. For those who are new to Flash, welcome to the world of visually rich, rapid application development for mobile Android devices! If you have any interest in Flash development for Android, this book is for you.
目录 Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Getting Ready to Work with Android: Development Environment and Project Setup
Chapter 2: Interaction Experience: Multitouch, Gestures, and Other Input
Chapter 3: Movement through Space: Accelerometer and Geolocation Sensors
Chapter 4: Visual and Audio Input: Camera and Microphone Access
Chapter 5: Rich Media Presentation: Working with Images, Video, and Audio
Chapter 6: Structural Adaptation: Handling Device Layout and Scaling
Chapter 7: Native Interaction: StageWebView and URI Handlers
Chapter 8: Abundant Access: File System and Local Database
Chapter 9: Manifest Assurance: Security and Android Permissions
Chapter 10: Avoiding Problems: Debugging and Resource Considerations
Chapter 11: Final Considerations: Application Compilation and Distribution

作者 About the Author
Joseph Labrecque is primarily employed by the University of Denver as a senior
interactive software developer specializing in the Adobe Flash Platform, where he
produces innovative academic toolsets for both traditional desktop environments and
emerging mobile spaces. Alongside this principal role, he often serves as adjunct faculty,
communicating upon a variety of Flash Platform solutions and general web design and
development subjects.
In addition to his accomplishments in higher education, Joseph is the proprietor of
Fractured Vision Media, LLC; a digital media production company, technical consultancy,
and distribution vehicle for his creative works. He is founder and sole abiding member of
the dark ambient recording project ‘An Early Morning Letter, Displaced’ whose releases
have received international award nominations and underground acclaim.
Joseph has contributed to a number of respected community publications as an article
writer and video tutorialist. He regularly speaks at user group meetings and industry
conferences such as Adobe MAX, FITC, and D2WC. In 2010, he received an Adobe Impact
Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the education community. He has
served as an Adobe Education Leader since 2008 and is also a 2011 Adobe
Community Professional.
Visit him on the web at http://memoryspiral.com/.

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