Foundation Flash Applications for Mobile Devices (eBook)

* This is the only up-to-date book on the market that covers Flash mobile application development.

* Evidence of demand - large companies such as Nokia and Samsung are Flash-enabling their phones.

* The book will support the new FlashLite version available with the next version of Flash, released later on this year.

Richard Leggett has over six years of experience with Flash and currently holds the position of senior creative developer at AKQA, London. His passion for everything new is the very thing that led him to Flash Lite in the first place, as Leggett believes mobile technology is the next frontier and the next step in the logical progression of the Web's expansion into every aspect of our lives. He has spoken at several industry conferences including Spark, Flashforward, and the very first Flash on the Beach, as well as being interviewed in magazine articles on the subject of Flash and occasionally speaking at user groups in his native country, the United Kingdom. Leggett tries to remain heavily involved in the Flash community, and you can find him online in the Flash Lite Yahoo Group as well as at his personal web sites: www.richardleggett.co.uk and www.flashmobileforum.org.

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It's always great to see people's faces when they copy their first Flash Lite applications or games onto their phones and press Run. The reaction is usually, "e;Wow!"e; Even something that would appear trivial when viewed on a web site somehow looks wholly impressive when running on that little color screen in your hand. By picking up this book, you're guaranteed to experience this moment for yourself. The aims of this book are to build on your current skill level-whether you're a beginner with no experience with Flash or an advanced coder with years of web programming prowess-and to give you the skills you need to create great content for mobile devices. At first, mobile Flash development might seem like a no brainer; you may have heard that you can just throw your Flash at the phone, and it just works-that's only half true. Creating content for devices carries with it a world of new limitations and possibilities, and it may require you to change how you think about users. On top of that, you are given new functionality to play with that can enrich the experience and give users what they really need, wherever they may be at the time.