Contents
Part 1 Getting started
- 1 Getting to know Flex Mobile
- Learning key terms
- Deciding between native and cross-platform
- What’s Flex Mobile?
- Hello World
- Introducing a running example
- Summary
Part 2 Mobile development with Flex
- 2 Get going with Flex Mobile
- Starting up your application
- Running your application
- Building your first application views
- Persisting navigator state
- Summary
- 3 Persisting data
- Storing data with the local shared object
- Storing data using SQLite
- Simpler data storage with PersistenceManager
- Summary
- 4 Using your device’s native capabilities
- Creating a device capability testing app
- Taking the same picture three different ways
- Monitoring movement with the accelerometer
- Finding out where you are with geolocation
- Including the entire web with StageWebView
- Using gestures the right way, right away
Texts, emails, maps, and phone calls
- Recording sound with the microphone
- Responding to OS-specific inputs
- Summary
- 5 Handling multiresolution devices
- Automatic scaling
- Using media queries in CSS
- Images for multiscreen projects
- Overriding DPI returns to customize applicationDPI values
- Splash screens
- Summary
Part 3 Advanced mobile development
- 6 MVC with mobile applications
- What is Robotlegs?
- Hitting the ground running with Robotlegs
- Separating your services
- Refactoring your data into models
- Splitting your code into views and mediators
- Application upgrade
- Summary
- 7 Architecting multiscreen applications
- Laying out a multiscreen application
- Libraries
- Android application
- Creating your QNX-specific application
- Creating your iOS-specific application
- Summary
- 8 Extending your mobile application
- Making money by adding ads
- Native extensions
- Useful user tracking
- Summary
- 9 Effective unit testing
- What is unit testing?
- Testing terms
- Synchronous unit tests
- Asynchronous test for event-driven tests
- Running tests from the IDE
- Summary
- 10 The almighty application descriptor
- General application descriptor settings
- Customizing your Android permissions
- QNX permissions for deployment
- Key points to iOS permissions
- Summary
- 11 Building your application with Flash Builder
- Exporting a release build with Flash Builder
- Android release process
- QNX release process
- iOS release process
- Releasing to markets
- Summary
- 12 Automated builds using Ant
- Building with Ant
- Your build setup
- Using Ant to run FlexUnit
- Showing off your code with ASDocs
- Building your library
- Packaging for Android
- Packaging for QNX (BlackBerry)
- Packaging for iOS
- Final steps
- Summary
