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Provided by: Tekno Point Multimedia Flash Lite 2.0/2.1 : Mobile Application Development |
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Training
Provided by Tekno Point Multimedia
Flash Lite 2.0/2.1 : Mobile Application Development
Eligibility / Audience:
To be fully prepared to understand the learning points in this course you must come in with the following knowledge:
1. Basic knowledge of mobile terminology
2. Experience with a scripting language
3. No Flash 8 Professional authoring environment experience necessary
Related Software Programs or Products: Adobe Flash8/CS3
Related Awards, Degrees or Certifications: You can give online Exam for Adobe Flashlite Certification
Related Jobs or Careers: Mobile Application Developer, Mobile Game developer, Mobile content Developer
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Flash Lite 2.0/2.1 : Mobile Application Development
- Unit 1: Introducing Flash Lite
- About the Course
- Objectives
- Prerequisites
- Understanding the Course Format .
- Reviewing the course outline .
- Understanding the Mobile Landscape
- Flash Lite vs. other technologies
- Supporting the mobile generation
- Introducing Flash Lite . / .
- Understanding Flash Lite . and .
- Flash Lite features for mobile devices
- Classifying Flash Lite applications
- Supported devices
- Using the Content Development Kit
- Joining the Adobe Mobile Developer Program
- Finding Mobile Content
- Nokia Content Discoverer client
Unit 2: Getting Started
- Installing the Adobe Flash Lite Player
- Using Nokia PC Suite
- Installing the Flash Lite Player on a Device (optional)
- Learning the Flash Professional Interface
- Using the Start Page
- Exploring the interface elements
- Working with panels
- Setting preferences
- Setting document properties
- Configuring document publish settings
- Using Document Templates
- Creating a template
- Mobile template specifics
- Walkthrough: Exploring Flash and creating a Flash Lite . template
- Publishing Mobile Documents
- Choosing the device
- Publishing documents
- Walkthrough: Publishing Flash Lite Applications
- Using the Mobile Emulator
- Using the navigation keys
- Using the Output panel
- Walkthrough: Using the Mobile Emulator
- Transferring Files to the Handset
- Walkthrough: Moving SWF Files to a Handset
- Comparing Mobile Specific Issues with the Desktop Flash player
- Working around screen limitations
- Working around memory limitations
- Factoring in processor speed
- Walkthrough: Comparing Flash Lite vs. Flash player .
Unit 3: Using Visual Objects .
- Organizing Mobile Applications
- Organizing assets using layers
- Understanding mobile template layers.
- Creating a new layer .
- Working with layers .
- Organizing Graphical Assets
- Understanding Image Types
- Understanding vector images
- Understanding bitmaps
- Comparing vectors vs. bitmaps .
- Importing Images .
- Positioning images
- Walkthrough: Importing Images .
- Creating Vector Images
- Understanding the object drawing model
- Using the drawing tools
- Using the Natural Drawing Tools .
- Using guides and rulers
- Specifying stroke vs. fill
- Walkthrough: Creating Drawings in Flash
- Organizing Mobile Applications .
- Using symbols .
- Using the library .
- Using symbol instances
- Understanding symbol edit modes .
- Walkthrough: Using Graphic Symbols
- Understanding Movie Clips .
- Adding a movie clip to a document
- Nesting movie clips .
- Best practices with symbols
- Understanding Buttons
- Using buttons
- Using button instances .
- Understanding button states
- Using invisible buttons as hotspots
- Walkthrough: Creating a Movie Clip and Using Buttons .
- Creating Mask Effects .
- Creating masks
- Walkthrough: Creating a Mask Effect
Unit 4: Working with Text Assets .
- Working with Text Assets
- Creating text assets .
- Changing text properties
- Understanding text field types .
- Using static text fields .
- Using input text fields
- Using text in Flash Lite . .
- Using dynamic text fields .
- Creating Input Text Fields .
- Understanding Font Handling
- Working with static text and fonts .
- Working with dynamic and input text with fonts .
- Optimizing Text for Mobile Devices
- Anti-aliasing text .
- Changing the font rendering method .
- Using pixel fonts for better text appearance
- Font mapping in FLA files
- Walkthrough: Understanding Font Issues in Mobile Devices
Unit 5: Creating Timeline Based Animation .
- Creating Animations
- Introducing the Timeline .
- Creating Motion Tweens .
- Motion tween elements
- Motion tweening
- Controlling the Timeline .
- Understanding actions .
- Creating an Animation
- Creating Frame-by-Frame Animations
- Frame by frame animation and symbols
- Onion skinning .
- Using distribute to layers .
- Walkthrough: Creating a Frame-by-Frame Animation
- Balancing Quality and Performance
- Using FSCommand(setQuality) .
- Importing a bitmap gradient .
- Walkthrough: Create a Best Practice Animation .
- Animation Best Practices .
- Close-up is better
- Simpler is better
- Hand tune your animations .
- Avoid overlapping tweens
- Start your project with a frame rate of to fps .
- Place your artwork in symbols
- Avoid pans and alpha fades
Unit 6: Building Well Architected Applications .
- Data Typing Objects .
- Data types are classes
- String data type .
- Number data type .
- Boolean data type .
- Understanding data type conversion
- Using the trace() Function .
- Using System.capabilities .
- Declaring Objects and Data Typing .
- Controlling Application Flow
- Calling functions and passing arguments
- Writing a user defined function
- Returning or not returning data from a function
- Understanding function placement
- Walkthrough: Creating User Defined Functions .
Unit 7: Controlling Visual Objects with ActionScript
- Adding Actions to Timeline Frames
- Adding ActionScript using the Actions panel
- Controlling visual objects.
- Controlling MovieClips and TextFields .
- Setting properties using ActionScript.
- Controlling Visual Objects
- Creating Visual objects at runtime
- Understanding Movie Clip Depth
- Controlling object depth using ActionScript .
- Using attachMovie() to create visual objects .
- Walkthrough: Organizing Visual Content .
- Dynamically Controlling MovieClips
- Creating an indefinite number of instances .
- Removing movie clips at runtime .
- Walkthrough: Dynamically Controlling Views .
Unit 8: Building an Effective User Interface
- Handling User Events on a Device .
- Handling key events in Flash Lite
- Communicating with the device
- Summarizing fscommand() settings
- Setting the Soft Key labels
- Handling Key Presses .
- Guiding the User s Experience
- Customizing the focus rectangle .
- Controlloing focus with the Selection class
- Referring to code in another timeline
- Understanding the path keywords
- Using _parent .
- Walkthrough: Controlling the Focus Rectangle
Unit 9: Creating a Mobile Game .
- Using ActionScript to animate
- Changing MovieClip properties over time
- Responding to the onEnterFrame event .
- Animating by changing properties over time
- Setting properties in relation to the Stage
- Using ActionScript for Animation .
- Changing an animation interactively .
- Using the hitTest() method
- Referring to movie clips dynamically .
- Removing a MovieClip at runtime .
- Walkthrough: Testing for Collisions
- Stopping an animation .
- Testing for the end of an animation .
- Deleting the onEnterFrame event .
- Walkthrough: Scoring and Ending the Game
Unit 10: Using Class Based Development .
- Creating Classes in ActionScript
- Linking a Class to a MovieClip symbol
- Extending the MovieClip symbol API
- Creating and Using ActionScript Classes .
- Defining class properties and methods
- Walkthrough: Adding Methods and Properties to a Class .
- Managing Scope issues in class files .
- Understanding the problem .
- Changing scope using the Delegate class
- Walkthrough: Using the Delegate Class .
Unit 11: Loading and Using XML Data to drive Dynamic Content
- Using XML
- Using white space in XML files.
- Using tag-based markup in XML files
- Loading XML data into Flash Lite
- Using the XML class .
- Making HTTP Requests to Different Domains .
- Handling the asynchronous response from XML requests .
- Loading XML .
- Understanding Array and Objects variables
- Creating and using an Array variable .
- Manipulating data within an Array
- Creating and using a "generic" Object
- Understanding Array and Object syntax
- Parsing and using XML data
- Loading the XML data
- Understanding the XMLNode objects
- Walkthrough: Parsing XML .
Unit 12: Streaming Data Synchronously to the Handset .
- Introducing XML Sockets
- Understanding Flash Lite socket connections
- Introducing an XML socket server: Jabber
- Setting Up a Jabber Account
- Using XMLSocket in Flash Lite .
- Using the XMLSocket class
- Connecting to the socket server
- Disconnecting from the socket server
- Walkthrough: Creating an XMLSocket connection
- Passing XML Data through Jabber .
- Identifying as a Flash based Jabber client .
- Sending data through XMLSocket
- Receiving data through XMLSocket .
- Walkthrough: Sending and Receiving XML Data .
- Assembling XML data
- Using compound String concatenation .
- Using the XML and XMLNode API .
- Walkthrough: Sending and Receiving Messages
Unit 13: Writing Persistant Data to the Device
- Persisting Data in a Flash Lite Application
- introducing local shared objects .
- Persisting Data
- Posting XML data to be persisted on the server
- sending XML data .
- Walkthrough: Passing XML Data Out of a Flash Lite Application
- Dispatching custom events
- understanding the need for event dispatching .
- using mx.events.EventDispatcher .
- Walkthrough: Understanding Event Dispatching .
Unit 14: Using Sound with Mobile Devices .
- Incorporating sound into a Flash Lite application
- Importing sound .
- Changing imported sound properties
- Compressing and exporting sounds .
- Exporting sound files for use with ActionScript
- Using the Sound Class
- Using the attachSound() method .
- Using the loadSound()method .
- Testing for Sound Capabilities
- Returning the maximum volume of the device .
- Returning the current volume of the device
- Using the System.capabilities values .
- Loading External Sounds .
- Controlling Sound
- Using the start() method
- Using the stop() method
- Walkthrough: Controlling Sound
Unit 15: Adding Video to a Mobile Application .
- Using Video in Flash Lite
- Limitations of device video
- Using device video formats
- Determing device capabilities .
- Using embedded ("bundled") device video
- Using the ActionScript Video class .
- Using Bundled Device Video .
- Using External Device Video .
- Playing device video in the emulator
- Walkthrough: Using External Video
Unit 16 : Creating Flash Lite Content For BREW
- Using BREW and Flash Lite .
- Understanding the BREW development process .
- installing BREW development software .
- Setting up the BREW environment
- Authoring Flash Lite Applications for BREW .
- understanding BREW file types
- understanding the device file structure
- Using the BREW Publishing Wizard in Flash Professional
- Deploying to the BREW SDK Simulator
- Walkthrough: Using the BREW Simulator
- Uploading to BREW Enabled Devices for testing
- Understanding the requirements for device testing
- Walkthrough: Uploading an Application to a BREW Enabled Device
- About the Course
- Objectives
- Prerequisites
- Understanding the Course Format .
- Reviewing the course outline .
- Understanding the Mobile Landscape
- Flash Lite vs. other technologies
- Supporting the mobile generation
- Introducing Flash Lite . / .
- Understanding Flash Lite . and .
- Flash Lite features for mobile devices
- Classifying Flash Lite applications
- Supported devices
- Using the Content Development Kit
- Joining the Adobe Mobile Developer Program
- Finding Mobile Content
- Nokia Content Discoverer client
Unit 2: Getting Started
- Installing the Adobe Flash Lite Player
- Using Nokia PC Suite
- Installing the Flash Lite Player on a Device (optional)
- Learning the Flash Professional Interface
- Using the Start Page
- Exploring the interface elements
- Working with panels
- Setting preferences
- Setting document properties
- Configuring document publish settings
- Using Document Templates
- Creating a template
- Mobile template specifics
- Walkthrough: Exploring Flash and creating a Flash Lite . template
- Publishing Mobile Documents
- Choosing the device
- Publishing documents
- Walkthrough: Publishing Flash Lite Applications
- Using the Mobile Emulator
- Using the navigation keys
- Using the Output panel
- Walkthrough: Using the Mobile Emulator
- Transferring Files to the Handset
- Walkthrough: Moving SWF Files to a Handset
- Comparing Mobile Specific Issues with the Desktop Flash player
- Working around screen limitations
- Working around memory limitations
- Factoring in processor speed
- Walkthrough: Comparing Flash Lite vs. Flash player .
Unit 3: Using Visual Objects .
- Organizing Mobile Applications
- Organizing assets using layers
- Understanding mobile template layers.
- Creating a new layer .
- Working with layers .
- Organizing Graphical Assets
- Understanding Image Types
- Understanding vector images
- Understanding bitmaps
- Comparing vectors vs. bitmaps .
- Importing Images .
- Positioning images
- Walkthrough: Importing Images .
- Creating Vector Images
- Understanding the object drawing model
- Using the drawing tools
- Using the Natural Drawing Tools .
- Using guides and rulers
- Specifying stroke vs. fill
- Walkthrough: Creating Drawings in Flash
- Organizing Mobile Applications .
- Using symbols .
- Using the library .
- Using symbol instances
- Understanding symbol edit modes .
- Walkthrough: Using Graphic Symbols
- Understanding Movie Clips .
- Adding a movie clip to a document
- Nesting movie clips .
- Best practices with symbols
- Understanding Buttons
- Using buttons
- Using button instances .
- Understanding button states
- Using invisible buttons as hotspots
- Walkthrough: Creating a Movie Clip and Using Buttons .
- Creating Mask Effects .
- Creating masks
- Walkthrough: Creating a Mask Effect
Unit 4: Working with Text Assets .
- Working with Text Assets
- Creating text assets .
- Changing text properties
- Understanding text field types .
- Using static text fields .
- Using input text fields
- Using text in Flash Lite . .
- Using dynamic text fields .
- Creating Input Text Fields .
- Understanding Font Handling
- Working with static text and fonts .
- Working with dynamic and input text with fonts .
- Optimizing Text for Mobile Devices
- Anti-aliasing text .
- Changing the font rendering method .
- Using pixel fonts for better text appearance
- Font mapping in FLA files
- Walkthrough: Understanding Font Issues in Mobile Devices
Unit 5: Creating Timeline Based Animation .
- Creating Animations
- Introducing the Timeline .
- Creating Motion Tweens .
- Motion tween elements
- Motion tweening
- Controlling the Timeline .
- Understanding actions .
- Creating an Animation
- Creating Frame-by-Frame Animations
- Frame by frame animation and symbols
- Onion skinning .
- Using distribute to layers .
- Walkthrough: Creating a Frame-by-Frame Animation
- Balancing Quality and Performance
- Using FSCommand(setQuality) .
- Importing a bitmap gradient .
- Walkthrough: Create a Best Practice Animation .
- Animation Best Practices .
- Close-up is better
- Simpler is better
- Hand tune your animations .
- Avoid overlapping tweens
- Start your project with a frame rate of to fps .
- Place your artwork in symbols
- Avoid pans and alpha fades
Unit 6: Building Well Architected Applications .
- Data Typing Objects .
- Data types are classes
- String data type .
- Number data type .
- Boolean data type .
- Understanding data type conversion
- Using the trace() Function .
- Using System.capabilities .
- Declaring Objects and Data Typing .
- Controlling Application Flow
- Calling functions and passing arguments
- Writing a user defined function
- Returning or not returning data from a function
- Understanding function placement
- Walkthrough: Creating User Defined Functions .
Unit 7: Controlling Visual Objects with ActionScript
- Adding Actions to Timeline Frames
- Adding ActionScript using the Actions panel
- Controlling visual objects.
- Controlling MovieClips and TextFields .
- Setting properties using ActionScript.
- Controlling Visual Objects
- Creating Visual objects at runtime
- Understanding Movie Clip Depth
- Controlling object depth using ActionScript .
- Using attachMovie() to create visual objects .
- Walkthrough: Organizing Visual Content .
- Dynamically Controlling MovieClips
- Creating an indefinite number of instances .
- Removing movie clips at runtime .
- Walkthrough: Dynamically Controlling Views .
Unit 8: Building an Effective User Interface
- Handling User Events on a Device .
- Handling key events in Flash Lite
- Communicating with the device
- Summarizing fscommand() settings
- Setting the Soft Key labels
- Handling Key Presses .
- Guiding the User s Experience
- Customizing the focus rectangle .
- Controlloing focus with the Selection class
- Referring to code in another timeline
- Understanding the path keywords
- Using _parent .
- Walkthrough: Controlling the Focus Rectangle
Unit 9: Creating a Mobile Game .
- Using ActionScript to animate
- Changing MovieClip properties over time
- Responding to the onEnterFrame event .
- Animating by changing properties over time
- Setting properties in relation to the Stage
- Using ActionScript for Animation .
- Changing an animation interactively .
- Using the hitTest() method
- Referring to movie clips dynamically .
- Removing a MovieClip at runtime .
- Walkthrough: Testing for Collisions
- Stopping an animation .
- Testing for the end of an animation .
- Deleting the onEnterFrame event .
- Walkthrough: Scoring and Ending the Game
Unit 10: Using Class Based Development .
- Creating Classes in ActionScript
- Linking a Class to a MovieClip symbol
- Extending the MovieClip symbol API
- Creating and Using ActionScript Classes .
- Defining class properties and methods
- Walkthrough: Adding Methods and Properties to a Class .
- Managing Scope issues in class files .
- Understanding the problem .
- Changing scope using the Delegate class
- Walkthrough: Using the Delegate Class .
Unit 11: Loading and Using XML Data to drive Dynamic Content
- Using XML
- Using white space in XML files.
- Using tag-based markup in XML files
- Loading XML data into Flash Lite
- Using the XML class .
- Making HTTP Requests to Different Domains .
- Handling the asynchronous response from XML requests .
- Loading XML .
- Understanding Array and Objects variables
- Creating and using an Array variable .
- Manipulating data within an Array
- Creating and using a "generic" Object
- Understanding Array and Object syntax
- Parsing and using XML data
- Loading the XML data
- Understanding the XMLNode objects
- Walkthrough: Parsing XML .
Unit 12: Streaming Data Synchronously to the Handset .
- Introducing XML Sockets
- Understanding Flash Lite socket connections
- Introducing an XML socket server: Jabber
- Setting Up a Jabber Account
- Using XMLSocket in Flash Lite .
- Using the XMLSocket class
- Connecting to the socket server
- Disconnecting from the socket server
- Walkthrough: Creating an XMLSocket connection
- Passing XML Data through Jabber .
- Identifying as a Flash based Jabber client .
- Sending data through XMLSocket
- Receiving data through XMLSocket .
- Walkthrough: Sending and Receiving XML Data .
- Assembling XML data
- Using compound String concatenation .
- Using the XML and XMLNode API .
- Walkthrough: Sending and Receiving Messages
Unit 13: Writing Persistant Data to the Device
- Persisting Data in a Flash Lite Application
- introducing local shared objects .
- Persisting Data
- Posting XML data to be persisted on the server
- sending XML data .
- Walkthrough: Passing XML Data Out of a Flash Lite Application
- Dispatching custom events
- understanding the need for event dispatching .
- using mx.events.EventDispatcher .
- Walkthrough: Understanding Event Dispatching .
Unit 14: Using Sound with Mobile Devices .
- Incorporating sound into a Flash Lite application
- Importing sound .
- Changing imported sound properties
- Compressing and exporting sounds .
- Exporting sound files for use with ActionScript
- Using the Sound Class
- Using the attachSound() method .
- Using the loadSound()method .
- Testing for Sound Capabilities
- Returning the maximum volume of the device .
- Returning the current volume of the device
- Using the System.capabilities values .
- Loading External Sounds .
- Controlling Sound
- Using the start() method
- Using the stop() method
- Walkthrough: Controlling Sound
Unit 15: Adding Video to a Mobile Application .
- Using Video in Flash Lite
- Limitations of device video
- Using device video formats
- Determing device capabilities .
- Using embedded ("bundled") device video
- Using the ActionScript Video class .
- Using Bundled Device Video .
- Using External Device Video .
- Playing device video in the emulator
- Walkthrough: Using External Video
Unit 16 : Creating Flash Lite Content For BREW
- Using BREW and Flash Lite .
- Understanding the BREW development process .
- installing BREW development software .
- Setting up the BREW environment
- Authoring Flash Lite Applications for BREW .
- understanding BREW file types
- understanding the device file structure
- Using the BREW Publishing Wizard in Flash Professional
- Deploying to the BREW SDK Simulator
- Walkthrough: Using the BREW Simulator
- Uploading to BREW Enabled Devices for testing
- Understanding the requirements for device testing
- Walkthrough: Uploading an Application to a BREW Enabled Device
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