Flex Mobile in Action

06/04/2012 · No Responses

Flex Mobile in Action teaches you how to use the powerful Flex platform to create applications that can stretch across Apple iOS, Android, and BlackBerry devices. It focuses on practical application development techniques such as accessing native device capabilities, choosing the right architectural patterns, building data access models, and more. For developers new to Flex, the book provides a quick overview that will get you started in no time.

Whether you’re extending existing applications to mobile clients or taking a mobile first approach, you need a good mobile strategy. That’s not easy. The mobile device market is complicated and changing rapidly, with constant innovation on the iOS, Android, and BlackBerry platforms. Flex Mobile is a new technology providing a single development environment that exports your application to any mobile platform utilizing the Adobe AIR runtime, eliminating the need to write and rewrite your code.

Flex Mobile in Action teaches you to use the powerful open source Flex platform to create applications that can stretch across Apple iOS, Android, and BlackBerry devices. It focuses on practical application development techniques such as accessing native device capabilities, choosing the right architectural patterns, building data access models, and more. For developers new to Flex, the book provides a quick overview that will get you started in no time.

As you explore Flex Mobile, you’ll also learn techniques for creating compelling mobile applications. Along the way, you’ll explore the tools created by Adobe and the open source community for performance monitoring, debugging, and device connections.

This book assumes no prior exposure to Flex Mobile. Experience with Flex or ActionScript is useful but not required.

What’s Inside

Using ActionScript for mobile development
Accessing device specific capabilities
Mobile optimizations for your Flex code
Unit testing with FlexUnit
Deploying and selling your apps

Table of Contents
Part I: Getting started
Chapter 1. Getting to know Flex Mobile

Part II: Mobile development with Flex
Chapter 2. Get going with Flex Mobile
Chapter 3. Persisting data
Chapter 4. Using your device’s native capabilities
Chapter 5. Handling multiresolution devices

Part III: Advanced mobile development
Chapter 6. MVC with mobile applications
Chapter 7. Architecting multiscreen applications
Chapter 8. Extending your mobile application
Chapter 9. Effective unit testing
Chapter 10. The almighty application descriptor
Chapter 11. Building your application with Flash Builder
Chapter 12. Automated builds using Ant