Flash Enabled: Flash Design and Development for Devices

by Branden Hall, Glenn Thomas, Christian Cantrell, et al.

Written for Flash/Web designers and developers, this work provides a comprehensive resource on developing Flash for the pocket PC, cell phone and other devices. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735711771
• ISBN13: 9780735711778
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: New Riders Publishing
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 1.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

This book made us money - what more can we say?

This might not be the sort of application the authors envisioned, but the book certainly helped us! We run a small online casino off the coast of Britain, TheGoldCasino (dot-com), and our development staff is fairly sparse (we're aimed primarily at users of e-gold, so we're not a big operation). We wanted to experiment with mobile games, but we assumed the cost would be prohibitive. Flash Enabled brought our current Flash developers from a state of knowing nothing about the PocketPC to having functional Flash-client prototypes in a shockingly short period of time! I don't know of higher praise for a book like this than: "It changed our business and made us money".Obviously, it's not yet clear how large the universe of PocketPC gamers with e-gold accounts will be, but this book at least compressed our development time to the point where it is quite easy for our mobile games to be profitable. Great stuff!

If your going to develope flash for PPC you need this book.

I can't put the book down. Making your own applications to run on your pocket pc is future.

This Book blows you away!

I'm trying to create an application for the pocket pc with flash as the UI. I saw the good reviews and thought I'd give the book a try. Okay, the verdict is in, you must get this book. Did you know that you can do tv commercials and shorts, in flash! This book tells you how. There's also a whole chapter about using flash to commnicate with Java. This means you can extend flash and do things like access databases, etc, etc. I love this book. Buy it!

End to End coverage...

This book covers everything, and more. I was very impressed with the amount of knowledge packed in this book. It includes info on of course handhelds, phones, tv's etc...to be expected...but wait there is more. Flash on ATM's, PS2, and XBOX! Its truly a primer for anyone looking to get into the world of developing for devices. And once your primed, read through it once more and discover even more info you overlooked.-GregPS Examples aren't lacking either, plenty to go around. (And a website too)

I'm Flash Enabled

Wow .. a real who's who of the Flash world, gathered together to put pen to paper. For a long time I've wanted to sit and share a coffee with these guys, well now I can via this book.There is SO much information in here that I'm going to have to read it again. Flash has always been a successful product, most people know this for the web, well this book shows you how to take flash to other devices, Pocket PC, WinCE, XBox, PS2, Cell Phones, Kiosks, ATM, HDTV, PDA and more.Full of pictures, code examples, a site dedicated to the book. I'd recommend this book for ANY flash designer. They talk about optimisation, Pixel Fonts, good design practises and more.Very well written, very easy to follow, and exciting...I found myself getting to the end of it and itching to start developing these things....