Professional Flash Mobile Development: Creating Android and iPhone Applications

338 Pages·2011·21.63 MB·English

by  Richard Wagner

Professional
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chaPter 14 Submitting Your App to the App Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .279
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PROFESSIOnAL
flash® Mobile Development
Creating android™ and iPhone® aPPliCations
Richard Wagner
Professional flash® Mobile Development: creating android™ and iPhone® applications
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To Kimberly and the boys.
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about the author
richarD WaGner is Lead Product Architect, Web/Mobile at MAARK and author of several Web-
and mobile-related books, including Safari and WebKit Development for iPhone OS 3.0, XSLT For
Dummies, Creating Web Pages All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, Web Design Before &
After Makeovers, and more. Richard has also authored several books outside of the field of technol-
ogy, including The Myth of Happiness and The Expeditionary Man.
about the technical eDitor
DreW falkMan has been developing web applications since it was standard practice to test for
Mosaic and Netscape. He rode the dot-com wave through growing a startup and achieving venture
funding, and he is now happy to consult and train through his own company, Falkon Productions.
Over the years, he has architected and worked on sites for customers from startup cattle auctions to
Fortune 500 companies using a host of technologies including Java, ColdFusion, JavaScript, Adobe
Flex/Flash, PHP, and WordPress. Also a writer, Drew has authored two books on Java for Adobe
Press and done technical editing for Que Publishing and Wiley. He has been published in developers’
journals and online, including on Adobe.com. He is an Adobe Certified Instructor and Developer
and has spoken at conferences around the U.S. He currently resides in Santa Monica, CA.
acknoWleDGMents
this WritinG of this book has reflected the stormy seas that Adobe has battled in order to release
Flash and Adobe AIR for mobile platforms. It started off as an iPhone-based book for Flash develop-
ers until Apple infamously changed its terms of use to exclude Packager for iPhone as being a valid way
to create iPhone apps. So, we shifted course, transforming the book into an Android-focused book.
However, when I was about 80 percent done with the writing, Apple changed its restrictive policy on
> Packager for iPhone, opening up Flash development once again to the iOS platform. In response, we
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