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Flash Lite 2.0/2.1: Mobile Application Development

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Description

Flash Lite 2.0/2.1: Mobile Application Development provides students the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to produce and deliver high-quality animations, interfaces, games and applications specifically designed to take advantage of mobile device capabilities. The course allows a developer with no Flash experience to quickly start improving their mobile workflow using Flash Lite, and to develop applications much faster than with other technologies. The course is task based, with students learning by actually building these applications. The course focuses on mobile best practices and students will learn how to build applications that run efficiently on lower powered mobile devices.

Course length

Three days

Audience

To be fully prepared to understand all the learning points in this course you must come in with the following knowledge:

Knowledge of mobile terminology.
Knowledge of a scripting language.

You are not required to have any knowledge of authoring Flash applications or development in other mobile technology.

Course outline

Introducing Flash Lite 2.0/2.1

Reviewing the course outline
Understanding the Mobile Landscape
Introducing Flash Lite 2.0 / 2.1

Getting Started

Installing the Adobe Flash Lite Player
Installing the Flash Lite Player on a Device
Learning the Flash CS3 Professional Interface
Exploring the interface elements
Using Document Templates
Publishing Mobile Documents

Using Adobe Device Central

Moving SWF Files to a Handset
Comparing Mobile Specific Issues with the Desktop Flash player
Using Adobe Device Central
Testing content in Adobe Device Central
Create a New Flash Lite Document
Using Device Profiles and Device Sets
Testing Content with Device Parameters

Using Visual Objects

Organizing Mobile Applications
Organizing Graphical Assets
Understanding Image Types
Importing Images
Creating Vector Images
Organizing Mobile Applications
Understanding Movie Clips
Understanding Buttons
Creating a Movie Clip and Using Buttons
Creating Mask Effects

Working with Text Assets

Working with Text Assets
Changing text properties
Creating Input Text Fields
Understanding Font Handling
Optimizing Text for Mobile Devices

Creating Timeline Based Animation

Creating Animations
Creating Motion Tweens
Controlling the Timeline
Creating an Animation
Creating Frame-by-Frame Animations
Onion skinning
Using distribute to layers
Balancing Quality and Performance
Animation Best Practices

Building Well Architected Applications

Data Typing Objects
Declaring Objects and Data Typing
Controlling Application Flow

Controlling Visual Objects with ActionScript

Adding Actions to Timeline Frames
Controlling Visual Objects
Creating Visual objects at runtime
Controlling object depth using ActionScript
Dynamically Controlling MovieClips

Building an Effective User Interface

Handling User Events on a Device
Communicating with the device
Setting the Soft Key labels
Handling Key Presses
Guiding the User’s Experience
Referring to code in another timeline
Using _parent

Creating a Mobile Game

Using ActionScript to animate
Changing MovieClip properties over time
Using ActionScript for Animation
Changing an animation interactively
Stopping an animation
Deleting the onEnterFrame event

Using Class Based Development

Creating Classes in ActionScript
Linking a Class to a MovieClip symbol
Creating and Using ActionScript Classes
Defining class properties and methods
Managing Scope issues in class files

Loading and Using XML Data to drive Dynamic Content

Using XML
Loading XML data into Flash Lite
Loading XML
Understanding Array and Objects variables
Parsing and using XML data

Streaming Data Synchronously to the Handset

Introducing XML Sockets
Setting Up a Jabber Account
Using XMLSocket in Flash Lite 2.1
Passing XML Data through Jabber
Assembling XML data

Writing Persistant Data to the Device

Persisting Data in a Flash Lite Application
Persisting Data
Posting XML data to be persisted on the server
Dispatching custom events

Using Sound with Mobile Devices

Incorporating sound into a Flash Lite application
Using the Sound Class
Testing for Sound Capabilities
Loading External Sounds
Controlling Sound

Adding Video to a Mobile Application

Using Video in Flash Lite 2
Using Bundled Device Video
Using External Device Video

Creating Flash Lite Content For BREW

Using BREW and Flash Lite
Setting up the BREW environment
Authoring Flash Lite Applications for BREW
Uploading to BREW Enabled Devices for testing