Flash Development for Android Cookbook Review

This is an awesome book to bring your Flash games and programs to Android!

This book provides you with everything you need to start developing programs and games on Android using Adobe AIR, assuming you already have some knowledge in ActionScript.

It shows short “recipes” on how to interface with everything that you would want to on the phone, from gestures, drawing, acceleration and geolocation, camera, microphone, images, video, audio, local storage and SQLLite, to even putting the final app on the market.

Every recipe is well written, and specific to the interface you will be looking for, so you can easily find how to use the accelerometer, or load up the browser within your app.

Most examples show how to do everything in Flash Builder (Flex), Flash ‘professional’, FDT, and even command line, so you have many options (although the code will work well in any of them).

The only negative I found with the book is that in Chapter 1, you learn how to compile, and run a program on Android, but Chapter 10 is when it actually goes into debugging, and setting up different configurations for testing your app.

I wasn’t sure how to have the app test run in Windows instead of running on my Android directly until that chapter (although it is a cookbook– you pick which chapter is relevant what you’re trying to do).

If you have built applications or games using Flash/Flex before, and would like to have a version running on Android, this book will give you all the information you need, and is a great reference as well!

Get it now to get your Flash apps running on Android!

http://www.packtpub.com/flash-development-for-android-cookbook/book