Labrecque Flash Development for Android Cookbook

Over 90 recipes to build exciting Android applications with Flash, Flex, and AIR
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-84969-143-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 372 Seiten

Over 90 recipes to build exciting Android applications with Flash, Flex, and AIRKey Features - 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
Book DescriptionFlash 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.What you will learn - 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
Who this book is forThis 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Labrecque, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Labrecque Joseph :

Joseph Labrecque is a creative developer, designer, and educator with nearly two decades of experience creating expressive web, desktop, and mobile solutions. He joined the University of Colorado Boulder College of Media, Communication and Information as faculty with the Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design in Autumn 2019. His teaching focuses on creative software, digital workflows, user interaction, and design principles and concepts. Before joining the faculty at CU Boulder, he was associated with the University of Denver as adjunct faculty and as a senior interactive software engineer, user interface developer, and digital media designer. Labrecque has authored a number of books and video course publications on design and development technologies, tools, and concepts through publishers which include LinkedIn Learning, Apress, Peachpit, Packt, and Adobe. He has spoken at large design and technology conferences such as Adobe MAX and for a variety of smaller creative communities. He is also the founder of Fractured Vision Media, LLC; a digital media production studio and distribution vehicle for a variety of creative works. Joseph is an Adobe Education Leader, Adobe Community Expert, and member of Adobe Partners by Design. He holds a bachelor's degree in communication from Worcester State University and a master's degree in digital media studies from the University of Denver.