You're reading from Mastering Adobe Animate 2023 A comprehensive guide to designing modern, animated, and interactive content using Animate

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837636266

Length 438 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

Adobe Animate

Concepts

Animation

Author (1):

Joseph Labrecque

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Getting Up to Speed

2. Chapter 1: Exploring Adobe Animate FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Creating and Animating Shapes

4. Chapter 3: Animating with Symbols, Classic Tweens, and Motion Tweens

5. Part 2: Animating with Diverse Techniques

6. Chapter 4: Enhancing Animations Using Advanced Layers Mode

7. Chapter 5: Setting Up Characters Using Layer Parenting

8. Chapter 6: Physical Motion with Inverse Kinematics

9. Chapter 7: Creating and Manipulating Warped Objects

10. Chapter 8: Modern Rigging Techniques

11. Part 3: Exploring Additional Capabilities

12. Chapter 9: Making Interactive Art with Creative Coding Techniques

13. Chapter 10: Developing Web-Based Games

14. Chapter 11: Producing Virtual Reality Content

15. Chapter 12: Building Apps for Desktop and Mobile

16. Chapter 13: Extending Adobe Animate

17. Index

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Working with the Adobe Integrated Runtime

In this section, we will download and install an AIR Software Development Kit (SDK) within Animate and configure a new AIR for Desktop document using the chosen SDK version.

AIR is simply one of the most amazingly flexible development platforms available. We are going to use AIR to build an image file browser application in this chapter. The user will be able to select a folder from their local filesystem, and any image files from that folder will display within a data grid. We’ll write a bit of logic so that only image file types will be displayed in the grid. When the user chooses a file from the grid, the image will be rendered within the application.

The first step in all of this is to install an AIR SDK in order to work with AIR documents.