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• Developing Android Applications with Adobe AIR

• By: Véronique Brossier

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

• Pub. Date: May 3, 2011

• Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4493-9482-0

• Pages in Print Edition: 316

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If you want to use your ActionScript skills to build mobile applications for the Android OS, this thorough guide will show you how to use the unique programming environment, architecture, and tools in the Adobe AIR for Android SDK. You'll get practical hands-on experience on a wide range of development topics, from device-specific features to optimization techniques and best practices -- including how expand your mobile development experience beyond Android to other platforms.

Developing Android Apps with Adobe AIR takes you through the entire development process, with ready-to-run example code that implements each feature discussed, including:

• Touch and gesture events, and screen orientation

• Saving and retrieving data on the device

• Features such as geolocation and the accelerometer

• Animation, scrolling, device resolution, and vector images versus bitmaps

• Architecture for one screen at a time and breadcrumb navigation

• Advanced topics, such as security, custom views, and optimization

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Table of Contents

 

Copyright

Dedication

Foreword

Preface

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1 TokenChapter 1. AIR

Section 1.1. Installing the Adobe Development Tools

Section 1.2. Installing the AIR Runtime on an Android Device

Section 1.3. What Is in the AIR SDK

Section 1.4. New ActionScript Libraries

Section 1.5. AIR on the Desktop Versus AIR on Android

Section 1.6. Mobile Flash Player 10.1 Versus AIR 2.6 on Android

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1 TokenChapter 2. Call Me, Text Me

Section 2.1. Setting Up Your Device

Section 2.2. Creating a Project

Section 2.3. Creating the Application Descriptor

Section 2.4. Writing the Code

Section 2.5. Packaging Your Application As an APK File and Installing It on the Device

Section 2.6. Testing and Debugging

Section 2.7. Mobile Utility Applications

Section 2.8. Installing AIR on an Android Device via a Server

Section 2.9. Other Tools

Section 2.10. Conclusion

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1 TokenChapter 3. Android

Section 3.1. Android Software Development Kit

Section 3.2. How Does AIR Run on Android?

Section 3.3. Using the Command-Line Tool

Section 3.4. Conclusion

Chapter 4. Permissions, Certificates, and Installation

Section 4.1. Why Mobile?

Section 4.2. The APK File

Section 4.3. Registering As an Android Developer

Section 4.4. Publishing an Application on the Android Market

Section 4.5. Controlling Distribution by Using the MAC Address

Section 4.6. Launching an AIR Application

Section 4.7. Monetizing Your Application

Section 4.8. Reporting

Section 4.9. Conclusion

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1 TokenChapter 5. Evaluating Device Capabilities and Handling Multiple Devices

Section 5.1. Hardware

Section 5.2. Software

Section 5.3. Creating Content for Multiple Screens

Section 5.4. Conclusion

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1 TokenChapter 6. Opening and Closing an Application and Saving Data

Section 6.1. The AIR Application

Section 6.2. Why and How to Save Data

Section 6.3. Conclusion

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1 TokenChapter 7. Multitouch Technology

Section 7.1. A Brief History

Section 7.2. What Is Multitouch and Gesture?

Section 7.3. The Multitouch Class

Section 7.4. The GestureEvent Class

Section 7.5. The TouchEvent Class

Section 7.6. The GestureWorks Library

Section 7.7. Designing for Touch

Section 7.8. Conclusion

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1 TokenChapter 8. Accelerometer

Section 8.1. What Is a Motion Sensor?

Section 8.2. Conclusion

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1 TokenChapter 9. Camera

Section 9.1. The Gallery Application and the CameraRoll Class

Section 9.2. The Camera Application and the CameraUI Class

Section 9.3. EXIF Data

Section 9.4. Conclusion

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1 TokenChapter 10. Geolocation

Section 10.1. Geolocation Classes

Section 10.2. Locating a Device Using Global Positioning System and Network/WiFi Technology

Section 10.3. AIR and Android

Section 10.4. Reverse Geocoding

Section 10.5. Maps

Section 10.6. EXIF Data and the Map Object

Section 10.7. The speed Property

Section 10.8. Conclusion

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1 TokenChapter 11. Microphone and Audio

Section 11.1. The Microphone

Section 11.2. Audio Assets

Section 11.3. Working with Sounds

Section 11.4. ID3 Tags

Section 11.5. Modifying Sound

Section 11.6. Raw Data and the Sound Spectrum

Section 11.7. Audio and Application Activity

Section 11.8. Conclusion

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1 TokenChapter 12. Video

Section 12.1. Preparing Video

Section 12.2. Playing Video

Section 12.3. Capturing Video

Section 12.4. Conclusion

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1 TokenChapter 13. StageWebView

Section 13.1. The Native Browser

Section 13.2. The StageWebView Class

Section 13.3. Conclusion

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1 TokenChapter 14. Hardware Acceleration

Section 14.1. Some Definitions

Section 14.2. Rendering, or How Things Are Drawn to the Screen

Section 14.3. GPU Rendering on Android

Section 14.4. The Display List

Section 14.5. Matrices

Section 14.6. Hardware-Accelerated Audio and Video

Section 14.7. Conclusion

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1 TokenChapter 15. Your Device and Others

Section 15.1. RTMFP UDP

Section 15.2. P2P Over a Local Network

Section 15.3. P2P Over a Remote Network

Section 15.4. Arduino and Physical Computing

Section 15.5. Conclusion

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1 TokenChapter 16. ViewManager

Section 16.1. Navigation

Section 16.2. Breadcrumb Navigation

Section 16.3. Flash Builder ViewNavigator

Section 16.4. Conclusion

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1 TokenChapter 17. Case Study

Section 17.1. The Album Application

Section 17.2. Conclusion

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1 TokenChapter 18. Asset Management

Section 18.1. Text

Section 18.2. Optimizing Art

Section 18.3. Bitmap Size and Mip Mapping

Section 18.4. Vector Graphics at Runtime

Section 18.5. Sprite Sheet and Blitting

Section 18.6. Custom Cursor

Section 18.7. Asynchronous Bitmap Decoding

Section 18.8. Caching Assets

Section 18.9. Components

Section 18.10. Conclusion

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1 TokenChapter 19. Best Practices for Development

Section 19.1. Resources on Optimization

Section 19.2. Where to Find Help

Section 19.3. How Does It Run?

Section 19.4. Memory

Section 19.5. Events

Section 19.6. Diagnostics Tools

Section 19.7. Conclusion

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