Flex 4.5 Mobile Development (2-3 days)
Official Adobe course
This course provides experienced Flex 4 or 4.5 developers with hands-on practive to start building mobile applications for Android, iOS, and Blackberry Tablet OS. To gain the most from this class, you should be familiar with:
- The content in the Flex 4.5: Developing Rich Internet Applications course including the Spark component architecture
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- Introducing Flex for mobile development
- Introducing Flex for mobile development
- Exploring Flash Builder for mobile development
- Exploring how to run and debug a mobile application
- Exploring an Android release build with Flash Builder
- Introducing mobile components
- Creating Flex mobile applications and views
- Exploring the Spark mobile-ready components
- Exploring mobile device orientation
- Navigating a mobile Flex application
- Navigating views
- Working with the Android mobile hardware keys
- Working with view transitions
- Launching native applications
- Working with data
- Exploring the RemoteObject class
- Managing data between views
- Exploring the navigator context property
- Exploring the persistence manager
- Handling remote data retrieval using a Singleton
- Creating item renderers in ActionScript
- Exploring Flex mobile item renderers
- Creating item renderers in ActionScript
- Intercepting default item renderer behavior
- Skinning with ActionScript
- Introducing Flex mobile skins
- Creating a more complex ActionScript mobile skin
- Programming multi-density applications
- Introducing multi-density applications
- Exploring an auto-scaling application
- Exploring manual DPI scaling
- Exploring multi-DPI assignments in a skin
- Creating a tablet application
- Working with the AIR camera API
- Taking a picture with the device camera
- Adding a picture from the device photo gallery
- Exploring the camera API with iOS