Win a Copy of Joseph Labrecque’s “Flash Development for Android Cookbook”!

Michael James Williams on Aug 6th 2011 with 33 comments

Our news reporter, Joseph Labrecque, recently wrote the Flash Development for Android Cookbook, full of “recipes” for building Android applications with Flash and AIR. We’ve teamed up with Packt Publishing to give away three free copies. Read on to find out how you can win one!

From the official book description:

The quickest way to solve your problems with building Flash applications for Android
Contains a variety of recipes to demonstrate mobile Android concepts and provide a solid foundation for your ideas to grow
Learn from a practical set of examples how to take advantage of multitouch, geolocation, the accelerometer, and more
Optimize and configure your application for worldwide distribution through the Android Market
Part of Packt’s Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible

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http://www.juxt2.com Dimitree

Well its fun to learn some new recipes!
Gjorgji

I’m making games as indie developer for more than 8 months as only job and barely surviving. Everyone talks that mobile development is a way to go for indies now days, so I like to learn as more as possible on that subject. :)
aditya

hope i win since i just step up into flash android development :D
@wei_chi
Vidit Kothari

tweet : https://twitter.com/#!/viditkothari/status/99827442679693312

I’m waitin’ for it.
Andy

Would love to get my hands on this book
bob crane

Student of web design. Would be a great asset.
Jorge

Wow, I want it!
Reinaldo Maldonado

Hi, everyone, I want this book because I started to develop my own games using flash, but where i live is hard to find a college how teach this.

Tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/3Droide/status/99844046855479296
http://dallenad.com/games/ Daniel Ramirez

I just started making my first game for Android, and this would be of great help.
http://blog.adobexpert.com Marlon Ceballos

I love the Flash Platform and I want to learn how to develop Android applications.
http://www.joshrickert.com Josh Rickert

I’m a media student, and I think it’s incredibly important to be familiar with development on platforms like android, which [with their successors] are going to define the next decade’s technology.
Vivian Kosy

I’m cookin’ good lookin’ give me the app cookbook.
Daniel Albu

This book would be a great asset :)
http://www.charlesdiggs.com Charles Diggs

This would be the perfect opportunity to learn new development techniques on the Android mobile platform. Besides, there’s no better way to leverage my GROWING knowledge of Actionscript 3 than to just jump right in! Android development is NEXT!
http://www.danielsidhion.com Daniel Sidhion

As a Flash Game developer wanting to try mobile, this would be awesome :)
sawrb

To hell with the ‘Tweet this’, ‘three lucky winners’ nonsense. Coaxing people into tweeting about your product with baits like these, rather than their own free will is just plain uncool.

Just let me know when the damn book is out, I’ll buy it.

http://michaeljameswilliams.com/ Michael James Williams

Author

It’s already out… I linked to it in the post.
Splicage

There aren’t many games on the Android market that are rated more than 4 star. Dillo Hills is currently the top download Air for Android game on the Market, with a rating of just 3.8 stars. I’D LIKE TO AMEND THIS, with a language that I’m familiar with! :)

Splicage

Woops. Replied by accident. Was meant to comment. Fix this please :)

http://www.remitechsolutions.com Kevin

I’d like a copy of this book to help add to my skill set in a field I’m already studying.
http://www.flipsidenation.com Chris Parkinson

Working on my first mobile game. Would love to win a copy!
http://www.fcevik.com/ fatih

I hope i will win.
@fatihdu77
http://cokelatsoft.com Trimikha

i want one!

https://twitter.com/#!/chocorobokun/status/100119298470715392
Tim

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for man to venture into the unknown and challange the Mobile Market, the wise will seek guidance from the guru breed of coders with Ninja like qualities to avoid the pitfalls that can lead to complete and total failure.

http://michaeljameswilliams.com/ Michael James Williams

Author

This is my favourite comment so far.

Keelan Brettner

I am a student learning android development for flash and this would help me out allot.
kah shiu

Most institutes based their Mobile Games curriculum around IPhone due to consistency of its platform (display dimensions, etc). Im having seconds thoughts. I think Android has a bigger share of mobile market and its worthy to have students learn to deploy Air Android. Hope this book will shed some light on my quest to push for its inclusion into curriculum.
Joost

I’d love to win a copy of this book, as I’ve recently ventured into development for Android in Java and am very curious to find out if there is an easier way – combining Flash and Android would be awesome!
Richard Lee

You can’t have too many Flash books. Plus it would be good for me to check out this publisher for a change.

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Reading this book permanently improves the player’s Flash skill by 2
http://repg.org tvardy

Wheee! I know/use/love Flex but never tryied to develop Android Applications… Maybe this is the time?
http://www.jsCampos.com/ Jose Campos

It’s time to evolve and take the content everywhere! thats why I would love to get this book! :-)
Kenny T

To learn Andriod development with Flash :)
Alexey

heh