In these videos from Total Training, John Ulliman, an experienced trainer, teaches you how you can use Adobe Flash 8 Professional to develop applications for mobile devices. In Chapter 8: Developing for Mobile and PDA, you will learn about:

• Exploring publish and device settings
• Creating a slideshow document
• Setting up for ActionScript
• Previewing with a test movie
• Animating a movie clip
• Creating a navigation system with ActionScript
• Tips and resources for developing mobile content

Exploring publish and device settings

This short tutorial is about Flash Lite, mobile phone devices, and making content available for these devices.

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Figure 1. Exploring publish and device settings

Creating a slideshow document

This short tutorial is about slideshows. We start by setting our document settings. We explore the uses of the external library. Since we use vectors you can scale them all to be similar in size and we add a bunch of vector objects followed by a bitmap image.

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Figure 2. Creating a slideshow document

Setting up for ActionScript

This short tutorial is about adding action script coding. We add an action to go into the first frame. We first set up two buttons for left and right arrows using ActionScript. We then add a stop command followed by a place holder which is off-screen called a catcher. We add a goto and stop, and then add the keypress for the keys on the phone.

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Figure 3. Setting up for ActionScript

Previewing with a test movie

This short tutorial is about previewing your animations in a test movie platform. You can test it out on a number of test device settings, representing a variety of different mobile devices, which come pre-installed.

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Figure 4. Previewing with a test movie

Animating a movie clip

This short tutorial is about using scripting and tweening. John makes a movie clip out of the object and sets it as a graphic symbol. Then he adds some keyframes and sets changes to the animation. After that, he sets up tweens to the animation.

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Figure 5. Animating a Movie clip

Creating a navigation system with ActionScript

This short tutorial is about setting up a navigating system to make it easier for the user. John goes through the Actions window to set up the keys to the animations. He then does a test movie.

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Figure 6. Creating a navigation system with ActionScript

Tips and resources for developing mobile content

This short tutorial is about developing mobile content. He brings you to the Adobe website to show you the Mobile and Devices section.

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Figure 7. Tips and resources for developing mobile content

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