You're reading from Mastering Adobe Animate 2021 Explore professional techniques and best practices to design vivid animations and interactive content

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801074162

Length 404 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Adobe Animate

Concepts

Animation

Author (1):

Joseph Labrecque

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Up-To-Speed

2. Chapter 1: A Brief Introduction to Adobe Animate FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Exploring Platform-Specific Considerations

4. Chapter 3: Settling into the User Interface

5. Chapter 4: Publishing and Exporting Creative Content

6. Section 2: Animating with Diverse Techniques

7. Chapter 5: Creating and Manipulating Media Content

8. Chapter 6: Interactive Motion Graphics for the Web

9. Chapter 7: Character Design through Layer Parenting

10. Chapter 8: Animating Poses with IK Armatures

11. Chapter 9: Working with the Camera and Layer Depth

12. Section 3: Exploring Additional Platforms

13. Chapter 10: Developing Web-Based Games

14. Chapter 11: Producing Virtual Reality Content for WebGL

15. Chapter 12: Building Apps for Desktop and Mobile

16. Chapter 13: Extending Adobe Animate

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Chapter 12: Building Apps for Desktop and Mobile

In the previous chapter, we designed an interactive virtual reality experience using beta document types in Animate based on WebGL standards.

For this chapter, we'll focus on the Adobe AIR platform and build a small utility application for browsing photographs. To develop this application, we'll need to download and install an AIR SDK and make use of ActionScript 3.0 as a programming language. We'll populate our application with the help of both components and button symbols, two features of Animate that we haven't explored until now. In closing, we'll examine how to convert the application for use on iOS and Android.

After reading this chapter, you'll be able to perform the following functions in Animate:

Learn how to download and install the AIR SDK from either Adobe or HARMAN.
Lay out an application interface using text, Button symbols, and Components.
Write ActionScript code...