Marble Runner: Our First Mobile Game

Up to this point in this book, almost all the examples I've shown are geared toward Flash running in a browser on a desktop PC. Shortly after the release of the first edition of this book, Adobe announced that Flash CS5 would be able to export native iOS applications and, later, Android applications using a forthcoming version of AIR (Adobe's runtime for desktop deployment). Although between that announcement and the present, there has been a great deal of drama surrounding Flash on mobile devices, as of this writing both of those plans have come to pass. Using Flash CS5 (and CS5.5), you can now deploy mobile applications for iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad) and Android devices. In this chapter and in www.flashgamebook.com .