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Adobe Developer Connection / Mobile /

Mobile app development

Develop mobile applications for iOS (iPhone and iPad), Android, and BlackBerry Tablet OS with Flash Builder and Flex, or with HTML and JavaScript.

Getting started

Build apps with Flex and AIR

Step through these tutorials for an intro to Flex mobile apps. Quickly build a simple "Hello World!" app, test it on your device, and then build more in-depth mobile apps.

  1. Hello World: Build a mobile app in five minutes
  2. Flex Mobile Test Drive

Build apps with HTML

Use HTML and JavaScript to build and test native mobile apps with Dreamweaver and package them for multiple platforms using PhoneGap.

  1. Combining your web skills with PhoneGap
  2. Hello World: PhoneGap
  3. Getting started with jQuery Mobile

Samples

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Dr. Stanley's House 2: An escape-the-room game for multiple devices

Dr. Stanley's House 2: An escape-the-room game for multiple devices

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the how this game was designed in Flash Professional, including sizing across different screens and coding for different runtimes.

Sylvester's Band: An interactive children's book for tablets, smartphones

Sylvester's Band: An interactive children's book for tablets, smartphones

Review the main technical challenges overcome in developing this storybook app for multiple screen sizes and to achieve great performance.

Mobile app development

Developing mobile apps with Flex and Flash Builder

Learn to develop Flex mobile apps with the same ease and quality as on desktop platforms. (Flex 4.5 documentation)

  1. Getting started
  2. Development environment
  3. User interface and layout
  4. Application design and workflow
  5. Run and debug mobile applications
  6. Package and export a mobile application

Packaging AIR apps for devices

Packaging applications for Apple iOS devices
Packaging applications for Google Android devices
Packaging applications for BlackBerry Tablet OS devices

Tune in to live radio with Adobe AIR

Learn how to stream live radio to mobile devices with Adobe AIR.

Considerations for developing Adobe AIR applications for mobile

Discover essential features of Adobe AIR that support mobile device capabilities and learn how to optimize mobile apps across screens.

Architecting your application for multiple devices

Explore the idea of MVC, frameworks, and package organization to simplify your multidevice development.

Flex mobile development tips and tricks

Ease the transition into mobile development by learning techniques for overcoming the new development challenges.

  1. Part 1: Data handling
  2. Part 2: Styling your app's tabs and ActionBar
  3. Part 3: Hiding your app's tabs and ActionBar
  4. Part 4: Alert popups and other skinnable popups
  5. Part 5: Using mobile view and tab transitions

Mobile app design

Learn how to design and customize a mobile app interface using mobile-optimized components, and learn from developers who created high-performance mobile apps built with Flash technology targeting iOS, Android, and BlackBerry Tablet OS.

Using Flex 4.5 mobile components

  1. User interface and layout
  2. Text controls
  3. Mobile skinning
  4. Spark component classes  (ActionScript 3 Reference)

Customizing your mobile app design

  1. Flex mobile skins: Optimized skinning basics
  2. Sizing graphics correctly across screens

Adobe AIR showcase apps for mobile developers

  1. Aqualux: Optimized browser-based game
  2. Conqu: Task-management app
  3. Digitas Cache II: An interactive publication
  4. Dr. Stanley's House 2: Escape game for multiple devices
  5. Sylvester's Band: Interactive children's book

Device platform considerations

Much of the core code for your Flex project is common to all platforms. However, some platform-specific considerations are important. The following pages highlight content specific to each platform.

  • Developing apps for Android
  • Developing apps for iOS – iPhone and iPad
  • Developing apps for BlackBerry Tablet OS
  • Developing apps for Flash Platform for TV

Flash Builder 4.6

Develop apps for iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry PlayBook, and Android.


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