Flash Enabled

The gurus of Macromedia Flash development give you the only guide you'll need for successful Macromedia Flash Player, and Flash MX design and development for multiple devices. Phillip Torrone, described by Wired magazine as the most wired person in America (and creator of the famed www.flashenabled.com), along with Branden Hall of Fig Leaf Software, Glenn Thomas and Andreas Heim of Smashing Ideas, and Mike Chambers of Macromedia, Inc., and a small cadre of other elite developers, share their secrets to enable you to create rich content deployable to a host of devices.

• Microsoft Windows-powered Pocket PC and Pocket PC Phone Edition
• WinCE device
• game consoles such as Microsoft Xbox- and Sony PlayStation 2
• cell phones and Smartphones
• touch-screens, kiosks, and ATMs
• TV and HDTV
• set-top boxes
• web tablets
• PDAs and more!

Contents

• Getting started with Flash on devices
• Creating content on the Pocket PC using Flash
• Interface design for devices
• Typography in Flash for devices
• From start to finish : understanding the Flash application development workflow

• Advanced Flash development for devices
• Creating motion graphics and character animation for the Pocket PC using Flash
• Creating interface games for devices using Flash

• Creating applications for devices with flash
• Data persistence with Flash, Jscript, and HTTP cookies
• Standalone application development using Flash and java
• Server-side dynamic content for Flash-Enabled devices

• Flash for television
• Creating flash content for television
• Developing Flash content for the Sony PlayStation

• The future of Flash and embedded devices
• Afterword : looking forward