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The popularity of Flash extends well beyond the Web. As an authoring application its combination of ease of use and powerful scripting has made it the choice of developers for every kind of platform from PDAs to PlayStations. Macromedia Flash Enabled shows you how to develop Flash Applications and content for these kinds of devices.

The book is aimed primarily at developers and designers. It doesn't attempt to teach you anything about the specific features of Flash MX, ActionScript programming, or even the rudiments of the Flash MX interface; not directly, anyway, so familiarity with Flash is pretty much a prerequisite. In addition, some knowledge of interface and application programming will stand you in good stead. It probably goes without saying that you'll also need at least a basic understanding of the platform for which you intend to design.

The first chapter is dedicated to perhaps the most obvious, or at least ubiquitous Flash-enabled device, the Pocket PC and in fact this platform gets most coverage throughout. Four sections cover getting started, advanced development, creating applications and creating Flash for TV, which includes a chapter on developing content for the PlayStation 2.

The content is well balanced, with good coverage of design-related topics as well as detailed treatment of both standalone application development as well as building front ends for server-side dynamic content using Macromedia Generator and its Java-based, open-source twin JGenerator. The Appendices provide a rich source of further information including advice on developing for touch-screen kiosks and the Nokia 9200 Communicator, code examples for Pocket PC device detection and a comprehensive resource guide. --Ken McMahon

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Flash Enabled guides Flash designers & developers in creating content and applications for multiple devices with Flash and other tools. Focusing on the Pocket PC platform, this book also discusses considerations in developing Flash for set-top box systems, cell phones, and lays the foundation for devices such as the Palm. The book targets four main concepts: 1)design/development considerations, 2) creating content once & deploying to many platforms, (including info on using MM Generator to author content in Flash and serve it to Palm Pilots and cell phones that don't yet have Flash Players), 3) creating Flash content for Pocket PC, and 4) application development using Flash integrated with middle-ware. Throughout this book the authors provide guidelines, step-by-step tutorials, workflow, best practices, and case studies.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not deep, Aug 1 2003

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Zeh Fernando (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

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Nice book, but it only touches some aspects of Flash for devices, never going into much detail, specially when it comes to videogames.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book made us money - what more can we say?, Dec 2 2002

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"thegoldcasino" (Principality of Sealand) - See all my reviews

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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!

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3.0 out of 5 stars very little HOW and a lot of WHAT WILL BE, Sep 12 2002

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G. Martinez "dangerahead" (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flash Enabled: Flash Design and Development for Devices (Paperback)

the GOOD and BAD:

First, THE BAD:
I want to make DVD menus with flash. I thought this would show me how, but instead it was a case study of a company called ... that used Flash and a C-Programmer made a connector from Flash to the DVD-OBJECT controller. no code for that. That ..... Don't buy it if that's what you hope to find.

Same with the Interactive Television stuff: Mainly a case study with no practical hows. Kind friggen lame.

There could have been a section on how to create 1 flash file that works on any handheld, desktop, etc. It would have been long, but there are those of us who bought the book and were really disappointed.
I think they were trying to publish the book before this one came out:

amazon.

BUT
Great Branden Hall stuff. that guy is who I want to be. He's amazing. other info on templates and stuff are excellent. top notch.

I'd wait and NOT get this book unless you walk into a bookstore and leaf through it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars 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.