Flash, iOS and money thoughts: Part III

The Search for Softwares

During the time of my research I stumbled upon Adobe Flex (www.adobe.com/products/flex.html). Although it looked really nice for creating applications for several mobile platforms, I wasn’t really sure about making games with it. Then I caught my eye on Adobe’s Flash Builder which seems to be a really efficient tool for creating Flash applications or games but then again I wanted to be cost-efficient. So I searched for if there were any free development tools available and thank god I found one: FlashDevelop.

FlashDevelop (www.flashdevelop.org) is a great tool to work with. Especially the IntelliSense feature is so comfortable. Be warned tough that this Development tool is only appropriate for Programmers. If you are a designer and have no experience at all with programming then stay away from it or you can just start learning actionscript 3. I won’t delve into details about actionscript 3s features so if you want to know about it click on gskinner.com/talks/50reasonsAS3)

As I wrote before, I hadn’t had any contact with the flash world so I was little bit afraid of actionscript 3. I never looked into it so I thought it’s one more language to learn. But after my first couple tutorials, which just flew by, I felt relaxed because now I knew that there is nothing to be afraid of and that I can do this. 


Read more:

Flash, iOS and money thoughts: Part I
Flash, iOS and money thoughts: Part II