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You hear it all the time: how can I make money from my apps? This is not an easy question to answer. The current implementation of app development in Flash really only allows for you to either sell or give your apps away for free. Currently, Adobe does not easily support advertising or in-app purchases [...]

Video is huge on the web. Just look at sites such as YouTube, Hulu, and Vimeo. The sites broadcast billions of hours of video. What is the technology driving these sites? Yeah, it’s Flash. You will hear a lot of talk about HTML5 video standards; however the reality is that Flash has the following when [...]

Sound is an area where the Android OS excels. There are three good reasons why sound is so good: The Android OS has an MP3 player built in Every Android comes with speakers Audio out (headphones) Android leverages a separate media class to handle audio. This media class can be tapped by Flash to allow [...]

The goal for your first Android application is a simple one: to get a basic Flash movie running successfully on your Android phone. The following steps will take you through the whole process,at the end of which you will have your first native Android application created using Flash tools. The next section explains how to [...]

Flash uses AIR to create your applications for Android. By default, AIR is not installed on the Android phone. This does not stop you from installing your new app, it will simply stop you from running it. Fortunately, AIR is freely available in the Google Marketplace. If your phone does not have AIR installed you [...]

Adobe is going to great lengths to make is very easy for you to develop Android applications. To this end, you can now develop Android applications with either Flex or Flash CS5 Professional. Flex development requires the use of a command line utility to make the final Android application. I hate command lines. So, to [...]

The core of your development completed in this book requires only the use of Flash CS5. To test your applications you will need to have the Android SDK installed on your computer. The SDK will allow you to complete the following: Run command line Flash build tools Test your Android App in an emulator Install [...]

The Android platform has been available for less than two years. In that time it has gone from being available on a few phones to being installed on dozens of different phones available on almost every mobile carrier. Today there are over 50 different mobile phones running Android OS 1.5 and greater. Flash is supported [...]

ActionScript 3.0 now supports the ECMAScript, DOM3, event model syntax. In layman’s terms, this means that you now use the Listener object to detect when you interact with your Flash movie using either a keyboard, mouse, or the new gesture interfaces used when touching the screen directly. This is a big move from AS2. As [...]

Transitioning to AS3 after your entire career has been spent working with AS2 does come with a learning curve. To help you through the transition, Adobe has included a great new tool in Flash CS5, the Code Snippets panel, which you can use to quickly add popular scripts to your movies. Here’s what you do: [...]

With all the changes between AS3 and AS2 it important to remember that there is a lot of functionality that is the same between them. This will help as you transition from traditional AS1/2 Flash development to mobile app development using AS3. For instance you still use the following in the same way:   Variables [...]

ActionScript is object-oriented in design concept. But what the heck does that mean? If you have developed for other programming languages, such as Java, C++, or C#, then you have heard of this term. Object-oriented essentially means that you break code into objects that can be easily reused. The idea is this: It is easier [...]

ActionScript 3.0 is a rewrite of ActionScript that brings it completely up to date with current development best practices. There are number of big changes that will take a while to get used to. The main changes are: ActionScript is located in Class files or in the Timeline. Code design is truly object-oriented. You cannot [...]

Adobe has just released version 2.6 of its AIR SDK and runtime. Adobe AIR now supports : iOS microphone camera multitasking StageWebView Class to enable embedding web pages in iOS applications access to soft keyboard configuration Retina Display provide enhanced performance. For download go to the  AIR 2.6 SDK and runtime from adobe.