New series covering Facebook application development using Adobe Flash

New series covering Facebook application development using Adobe Flash

Rich Tretola
March 30, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (4)

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We would like to announce that next week a new series will be published on InsideRIA covering application development on the Facebook Platform based on the newly announced Adobe AS3 Library. This series will be authored by Mirza Hatipovic.

Facebook apps are quite popular and we know that this series will be appreciated by our readers. Weekly we will publish an installment from the 20 article series covering RIA development on the popular Facebook platform. We will provide samples based on the brand new Facebook ActionScript 3.0 library that will be released by Adobe these days as well on the standard approach using the PHP library provided by Facebook.

Here is the table of contents:

Starting off the right foot

1. Creating a Hello Friends App
2. Overview of embedding SWFs into Facebook Canvas
3. Setting up AMFPHP for Flash
4. Creating a Custom API in PHP for Flash
5. Using the brand new Facebook ActionScript 3.0 library

Assembling the pieces

1. Component architecture for Facebook applications
2. ProfilePic Component
3. Extended ProfilePic Component with Effects
4. Enhanced Status Component
5. Multifriend Selection Component
6. Notification Component
7. Publish News Component
8. User Info Component
9. Search friends component
10. Send Gifts Components

Advanced application: Fun Wall Application in Flash

1. Setup of Database, PHP and Flash
2. Coding the wall entries
3. Coding the notifications
4. Enhancing the look and feel
5. Setting stage for the future development and ideas

We hope you will enjoy the series.


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