Hello everyone,
I need a very simple app for my iPad for a presentation that I am partaking in.
I am most familiar with Flash and am in no way a coding expert.
The app I have in mind could easily be done in Flash and with my limited coding skill set.
I am having a heck of a time finding resources online on how to go about this.
the proper way to set up your file.
pitfalls to avoid
exporting / compiling / publishing ect…
if anyone has any experience (first hand)
has seen any good tuts or articles
or has any thoughts or opinions either way I would greatly appreciate it.
thanks!
Unfortunately, the iPad does not support Flash. Even the non-Safari browsers that seem to support Flash, do it by a 'workaround'. I read an interesting article recently giving the reasons why Apple decided not to support Flash on the iPad. The author of the article suggested that tablet computers with only touch-screen (i.e. no physical keyboard) can never support Flash properly because Flash interprets 'cursor hover' - i.e. on a machine with a mouse and an on-screen cursor, hovering the cursor over a link can instigate a number of actions - even if the mouse button is not pressed - perhaps a drop-down menu appears for the user to select from, for example. The author gave numerous other examples of how Flash might interpret 'cursor hover' (he is a professional Flash programmer. You say you are familiar with Flash, so you probably know about these). Since the concept of 'cursor hover' does not exist with a touch screen computer, these sites would not respond correctly to the iPad. In the previous case, for example, the drop-down menu would not appear and the user would be unable to select from the list of items offered.
OK - I know a number of other touch-screen tablets do offer Flash support (and I'm not a programmer, so I'm just relaying what the article said) but it seemed to make some sort of sense to me. I've never used a touch screen tablet with Flash, so I'm unsure of how much of a problem this would be.
OK - sorry to have rambled on so much....
If you want to develop apps for the iPad I've found that, if you go to iTunes, then select iTunes U and then go to 'Universities and Colleges', several of the Universities (i.e. try Stanford) have extensive video classes on how to develop apps for iOS (i.e. the iPad) and they're all free. Of course, you have to sit through an entire semester's-worth of lectures, but you are hearing from some of the best lecturers in the world. Like all good lecture courses, there are moments of humor too...
Tim
Scotland
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