A ‘Flash’ of Freshness : Repurposing Existing Flash Content for Use in Mobile Development

A ‘Flash’ of Freshness: Repurposing Existing Flash Content for Use in Mobile Development

A ‘Flash’ of Freshness: Repurposing Existing Flash Content

for Use in Mobile Development

Agenda• Introductions• Objective• What we are not going to cover• Basic reusability - Example #1• Advanced reusability - Example #1• Advanced reusability - Example #2 • Applying previous examples to mobile• Creating an IPad app• Questions

Introductions• Mike Raines– eLearning & Web Developer

for ICF International– Flash, ActionScript, HTML,

JavaScript experience

Micheal.Raines@icfi.com

@elearnDevGeek

Objectives• How to repurpose existing Flash content for use in mobile

development• Techniques for maximizing reusability in your Flash projects

What we are not going to cover• Developer Certificates• Provisioning Profiles• Final packaging for app stores

Visual Aids

• ActionScript• Flash• FlashBuilder• Dreamweaver• XML

What do I mean by ‘Reusability’?• Develop once, use many times

Basic Reusability

• Simple MovieClip• No ActionScript in

MovieClip

Basic reusability

• Add ActionScript elsewhere– Main timeline– Another MovieClip

Advanced reusability

Example #1: Flash / XML banner• Creating a class• What is a class?– Basic set of instructions– Not reinventing the wheel– Building on what has come before

Example #1: Flash / XML banner• Why Build a class?• Reuse• Make it’s purpose very specific

Example #1: Flash / XML Banner• Why use XML?– Specific != boring– Expand reusability

Example #2 Flash / XML interactions• Same concept – more complexity

That’s great but how does this apply to mobile?

Applying previous examples to mobile via FlashBuilder & AIR

• Loading a SWF at runtime• Embedding a SWF• Importing SWC library

Loading a basic SWF• Loaded SWF’s offer more flexibility– Loaded SWF’s can be “defined” at runtime via user

action or external data (XML, JSON)• Loaded SWF’s CANNOT contain ActionScript*

Embedding a basic SWF• Embedded SWF’s are hard coded into your

app– Embedded SWF’s are compiled during the build

process• Embedded SWF’s CAN contain code

SWC explained“An Adobe SWC file is a package of precompiled Flash symbols and ActionScript code that allows a Flash or Flex developer to distribute classes and assets, or to avoid recompiling symbols and code that will not change.[1] SWC files can be generated by the Flash authoring tool, and by Flex. They are sometimes referred to as class libraries and cannot be directly executed by the Flash Player.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_SWC_file

Exporting SWC from Flash

Importing SWC into FlashBuilder

Do I need a SWC for each SWF?• Yes!• No!• Maybe?

Some assembly required• Existing Flash pieces will need modification– Paths– Strict ActionScript code– File types

Creating an IPad app

Creating a project with FlashBuilder • You have some options

Creating an IPad app: steps• Name• Build Paths• SDK

Creating an IPad app: steps• Platform• Basic app settings

Creating an IPad app: steps• Target device

Creating an IPad app: steps• Library path– Assets– Classes

Creating an IPad App: steps• Library path– Flex SDK– SWCs

Creating an IPad app: steps• Certificate• Provisioning

Profile

Creating an IPad app: steps• Package

contents

Creating an IPad app: starting files

Main.as

Main-app.xml

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