Publisher Description

Ready to put your ActionScript 3 skills to work on mobile apps? This hands-on book walks you through the process of creating an Adobe AIR application from start to finish, using the Flex 4.5 framework. Move quickly from a basic Hello World application to complex interactions with Android APIs, and get complete code examples for working with Android device components-GPS, camera, gallery, accelerometer, multitouch display, and OS interactions. No matter how much Flex experience you have, this book is the ideal resource. * Use Flash Builder 4.5 to create and debug a Flex Mobile project * Choose a layout option to determine which files Flash Builder auto-generates * Select permissions that control which devices can install your app from the Android Market * Explore APIs that enable your app to interact with specific Android OS features * Learn how to read and write text files, browse the file system for media files, and create and write to an SQLite database * Use the URLRequest class to open your app in the browser, place calls, and create emails and text messages * Load web and video content into your app with StageWebView * Publish your app to an Android installer file with Flash Builder

Author Biography

Rich Tretola currently holds the position of Applications Development Manager at Herff Jones Inc. He is an award-winning Flex developer and was the lead author of Professional Flex 2 (2007 ISBN: 0470102675) and sole author of Beginning AIR (2008 ISBN: 0470229047). He is also a contributing author on Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook (2008 ISBN: 0596522509) Rich has been building Internet applications for over 10 years and has worked with Flex since the original Royale beta version of Flex in 2003. Other than Flex, Rich builds applications using ColdFusion, Flash, and Java. Rich is highly regarded within the Flex community as an expert in RIA and is also an Adobe Community Expert. He runs a popular Flex and AIR blog at EverythingFlex.com, is the community manager of InsideRIA.com and was also a speaker at the Adobe MAX 2007 conference in Chicago. He has been asked to be a speaker at the Adobe MAX conference for three consecutive years. For a non technical escape, Rich is also a co-owner of a chocolate bar manufacturing company located on Maui named WowWee Maui.

Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction to Android; Who This Book Is For; Who This Book Is Not For; Conventions Used in This Book; This Book's Example Files; Using Code Examples; How to Use This Book; Safari

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Building Android Applications with ActionScript

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