More and More apps are being made with Flash and Flashartist.org is keen to review the best of them.
Also since it is halloween you may want to check out FROSBY STUDIO Latest release, Vlad’s Vampire Bats
Vlad’s Vampire Bats is available on the iPad, iPhone
and Android

This app made in Flash is an interactive children’s story for Halloween. Vlad is a lonely Vampire with a strange gift: he can turn things into bats! Great fun for kids.

If you want to know how he did it, check out Matt’s article on Flash Artist..

Flash apps london provides visualisation services for your Ipad , iphone and android application.
Find out more at www.flashapps.co.uk

How to make Flash apps for the iPad
(For Designers:)

by Matt Wasser 26/7/11

Want to make apps for the iPhone and iPad, but clueless about where to start? Until Autumn 2010, developing for Apple’s wondertoys has been a closed shop. The standard programming language used for creating apps for Apple’s iOS is Objective C, so if you come for a design background, that’s highly off-putting. But a new dawn for Flash is here at last. It feels like the early days of the web again, and as I was a student in ’98 I missed that wave!

When I tell people I’m making iPad apps in Flash, they all say the same thing: ‘but I thought Flash doesn’t work on the iPad?’ Well, websites made in Flash are still not supported on the iPad, which is a shame, but there is now a bright ray of sunshine for Flash made apps for the iPad, which is going to be great for Flash animators like me, who know a bit of code, but will never be full-on developers. I’m now becoming a bit of hybrid of the two.

This ray of sunshine comes in the form of Adobe Flash CS5.5 combined with the Air 2.7 packager. After a 2-3 week wait for my iPad 2 in London, and then another wait to get my Apple Provisioning license setup, I could at last test out some animation on my iPad. I started with the Air 2.6 installed, and the results were quite slow, but I was still excited. My vector graphics looked stunning on the iPad’s screen. And then came the Air 2.7 SDK. The change in speed in CPU mode was instant and incredible. It apparently speeds up your app 4 times faster.

The following is literally my findings so far. I can’t say I’ve tried everything, and each day comes a new wall to climb and sometimes a eureka moment. I’m having to learn Actionscript 3 at the same time as testing on brand new device. Everyone on Adobe’s Mobile Forum is a pioneer. The map for interactive touch screen development is still being written..

Getting your Apple license and setting up in Flash

I was expecting the process to be much more complicated. It’s actually not too bad if you’re a flash user. You have to take some admin steps to get your provisioning codes, but after that, it’s all done through iTunes. Here are the steps. Useful links are below.

- You’ll first need to buy an Apple Developer licence first, which costs $100 a year. You cannot even test your app on a device until you have this.

- You need to have an Apple mac running Snow Leopard to be able to make apps in Flash. You can also use Lion, but it is too new to say if this is a good move!

- You don’t need to download Apple’s Xcode software. The last step is done through itunes. In the Air to iOS box > delployment tab > click the ‘More Info’ button for help.

Setting up your iPad project in Flash

Open Flash CS5 or 5.5. File > New > Select Air for iOS. Now we’ll set it to the iPad’s resolution. Click Modify > Document > set the size to 1024 width by 768 height. Next we’ll set up our export settings. Click File > Air for iOS. Here is what the dialogue box looks like:

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Essential links :

Adobe’s getting started with Air pages

Get the Air 2.7 SDK

Air 2.6 Vs. Air 2.7 video

Join the Apple Developer Program

Adobe’s mobile developer Forum

An overview for Multitouch and Gesture code in Flash

Adobe’s Multitouch Gesture Reference guide

Republic of Code’s excellent Flash tutorials

Flash Development Forum at Kirupa.com

Here is a simple video tutorial describing how you can get animating using traditional methods in FLASH
What I mean by traditional methods is a frame by frame approach to animation, no tweening or complexe rendering, just as
used in old walt disney and tex avery cartooons. (whereby you have to draw each 24 frames of each second of animation)

There will be no use of tweening or any other functionality of Flash for this demonstration, just good old drawing using a tablet and instead of using transparent sheet to preview each step of our drawing we will be using the onion skin tool (see image below) to move form one image to the next.

Tips:

* Use the F6 key to insert a new keyframe / or right click (insert new keyframe)

*use the back space key to delete each frame as you go creating the next one.

*make sure the onion skin button is on so you can view the previous frame

Check the video tutorial , it describe how to select your brush and adjust it , and a step by step progression from one keyframe to the next using the onion skin to preview the previous drawing.

For this demonstration I am using a WACOM Intuos 4 S Graphics Tablet Graphic tablet

A fascinating account of Disney’s animation genius.

watch more tutorials at ADOBE’S TV

These are really exciting times, many of us have been waiting for years to be able to spread our flash games and applications to mobile devices, after the unconvincing Flashlite and Iphone without the flash player we now have ANDROID,
You can now publish Flash content for ANDROID as easily as a swf Using FLASH CS5, check out this very straightforward tutorial showing how to publish and convert your flash to ANDROID mobile device, the Flash Player 10.1 works with Android 2.2, and any device with Android 2.2 or higher
such as the Google Nexus.
GotoandLearn tutorial

AIR for Android – First Tutorial from Emilian Necula on Vimeo.

Yes, get your animation seen! here is a list of animations festival where you may be able to submit your Flash animations get shortlisted (not to mention get noticed!)

http://www.encounters-festival.org.uk/

http://www.webflashfestival.fr/categorie/competition/
http://www.depict.org/
ottawa animation festival
http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/
http://www.leedsfilm.com/
http://www.kinofilm.org.uk/
http://www.animex.net/
http://www.flipfestival.co.uk/
http://www.britishanimationawards.com/
annecy international animation film festival

If you are starting out with Flash or simply want to learn new tricks, check out the FLASH CHEAT book serie, there are tons of really useful techniques and templates,
I have found these tutorials particularly clear and easy to learn,
- How to export your flash for broadcast
- Learn how to make your own Flash desktop application
- create some 3d effects
- Learn how to publish your flash product for the iphone