Build Mobile Apps in a Flash!

This course will teach you everything you need to know to develop applications for iOS (iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch), Google Android and even Blackberry's Tablet OS all using Adobe's Flex and Flash Builder toolset. Whether or not you've used Flex or Flash before, you can build your own apps in just 14 days by spending only an hour a day. If built right, a single codebase can deploy to all of these devices. So start building your own apps today!

Drew Falkman is an Adobe certified instructor and developer who has taught Flex at Fortune 500s across the US since version 1.5. This course is for aspiring application developer who has no experience using Flex or Flash OR existing Flex or Flash developers looking to use the new mobile application development features.

• Over 45 lectures and 4.5 hours of content!
• The basics of setting up an environment to develop applications using Adobe Flash Builder 4.5
• How to get set up with each of the device types: Google Android, Apple iOS and Blackberry Tablet OS
• The basics of how to write ActionScript and MXML code - the building blocks of Flex mobile apps
• How to use the new Flex mobile containers to lay out and navigate between screens
• How to style and skin your Flex applications to make them look like your own (or like a native iPhone app)
• How to handle data in your mobile apps, including how to persist the state and data when the user gets a call
• How to use mobile popups and other mobile components like busy indicators
• and much more..

• Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 (trial edition is OK)
• Recommended: a mobile device running Android, iOS or Blackberry PlayBook
• Recommended: some programming experience

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.