Post Description

Building Android and iOS Applications with Flex shows developers how to design and deploy mobile applications for the Android and iOS smartphone platforms. Leveraging the capabilities of Flash Builder and the Flex framework, author James Talbot sheds light on architecting applications, incorporating mobile components, and building ActionScript skins. The course also covers mobile-specific APIs; optimizing memory and data connectivity; and submitting apps to the Android Market, the iOS App Store, and the Amazon Marketplace. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:

    Installing Adobe AIR and the Android SDK
    Creating a project using only ActionScript
    Understanding device configurations and debugging
    Testing applications with emulators
    Maximizing screen real estate with the View Navigator classes
    Styling a tabbed application
    Loading HTML into a mobile application
    Using gestures, Multi-Touch, geolocation, and the accelerometer
    Setting up Flex project libraries to reuse code
    Packaging and distributing an app