Getting started with flash mobile development

Getting Started with Flash Mobile Development
Mihai Corlan | WW Developer Evangelist | http://corlan.org

About Me
Adobe World Wide Developer Evangelist (since 2008)
Flash Builder Engineer 2006-2008
Web Developer 98’ - 2006
Blog: http://corlan.org
Twitter: http://twitter.com/mcorlan
Email: mihai.corlan@adobe.com
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Live Coding – a simple Twitter Client

Flex Support for Screen Metaphor
Application First Screen
Second Screen

Flex Mobile Components - ViewNavigator
Using Flex’s s:MobileApplication or s:TabbedMobileApplication you get screen management for free
navigator.push(NewScreen, data) - add new screen
navigator.popView() - go to previous screen
navigator.popToFirstView() - go to first view
navigator.activeView - retrieve active view

Action Bar
Navigation / Title / Action
Hide the bar actionBarVisible = false
Overlay the bar overlayControls = false
<s:navigationContent>
<s:Button label="Home"/>
</s:navigationContent>
<s:titleContent>
<s:TextInput prompt="search" width="100%"/>
</s:titleContent>
<s:actionContent>
<s:Button label="Go"/>
</s:actionContent>

View Lifecycle
?
View
Data
Another
View
Destroyed
Created
Created
Destroyed
Created
Destroyed
data = yourData;
destructionPolicy =”none"

Integration with Phone/SMS/Mail/Web Browser Apps
<s:Button label="Phone" click="navigateToURL(new URLRequest('tel:08383838'))"/>
<s:Button label="SMS" click="navigateToURL(new URLRequest('sms:08383838'))"/>
<s:Button label="Email" click="navigateToURL(new URLRequest('mailto:mcorlan@adobe.com'))"/>
<s:Button label="Web" click="navigateToURL(new URLRequest('http://corlan.org'))"/>

Camera Access
Access to Camera Roll
Access to Camera Native app (for video and photo)
cameraUI = new CameraUI();
cameraUI.addEventListener(MediaEvent.COMPLETE, onCameraUIComplete);
cameraUI.launch(MediaType.IMAGE);//photo
//cameraUI.launch(MediaType.VIDEO);//video
private function onCameraUIComplete(e:MediaEvent):void {
varmediaPromise:MediaPromise = e.data;
// do something with the image:
mediaPromise.file.url;
}

Microphone Access
if (Microphone.isSupported) {
mic= Microphone.getMicrophone();
soundBytes = new ByteArray();
mic.addEventListener(SampleDataEvent.SAMPLE_DATA, micSampleDataHandler);
}
private function micSampleDataHandler(event:SampleDataEvent):void {
while (event.data.bytesAvailable) {
varsample:Number = event.data.readFloat();
soundBytes.writeFloat(sample);
}
}

Storing Data
AIR has support for SQLite. You can create new databases/tables, read/write records
You can write files to device storage

Thank You!
Download tutorial and projects for mobile development:
http://corlan.org/downloads/dt/mobile.zip
I will upload the slides to my blog today.
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Getting started with flash mobile development

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