Flash Lite 3 Mobile Application Development with ActionsCript 2 training course

Course Outline

Flash Lite 3 Mobile Application Development provides the knowledge and hands-on practice to produce high-quality animations, interfaces, games and applications which take advantage of mobile device capabilities. It is task-based, with students learning by actually building applications. The course focuses on mobile best practices and students will build applications that run efficiently on lower powered mobile devices. Please note: this course does not cover Flash Lite 1.1

Course Content

This course has been developed for real-world, commercial scenarios by our expert instructors. See below for detailed syllabus.

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Adobe Flash Training Course Outline

Course Introduction

Understanding the Mobile Landscape
Understanding Mobile Terminology

Getting Started

Introducing Flash Lite 3 and Flash 8
Installing the Flash Lite 3 Player 
Working with the Flash Interface 
Using the Mobile Templates and getting new Templates
Publishing Mobile Documents 
Using the Mobile Emulator 
Comparing Mobile Specific Issues with the Desktop Flash Player

Optimizing Image and Graphical Objects

Organizing Mobile Applications
Working with Images
Creating Vector Images 
Understanding Movie Clips 
Creating Mask Effects 

Working with Text Assets

Working with Text Assets 
Understanding Font Issues
Optimizing Text for Mobile Devices
Attaching ActionScript to Objects 
Using Variables

Creating Animations

Creating Animations: Motion Tweens 
Controlling the Timeline
Creating Frame-by-Frame Animations 
Balancing Quality and Performance
Animation Best Practices

Working with Buttons and Movie Clips

Understanding Buttons
Using Movie Clip Timelines
Using Movie Clips to Build Different States
Understanding Loading of Movie Clip Content
Using ActionScript 2 with Movie Clips
Targeting Movie Clips 

Accessing Phone Functionality from Flash Lite

Interacting with Users
Remapping Soft Keys 

Adding Interactive Animation

Using ActionScript 2 for Animation 
Using the Timeline for Looping
Creating Movie Clips Dynamically
Cleaning Up Animations for efficiency
Detecting Movie Clip Collisions 

Incorporating Sounds in Mobile Applications

Incorporating Sound in a Flash Lite Document
Controlling Sound on the Timeline 
Testing for Sound Capabilities

Using Dynamic Data

Using Dynamic Data in Mobile Devices 
Accessing a Server in Flash Lite 3
Sending Data from Flash Lite 
Integrating Non-English Characters