Using AIR Technology for Mobile Devices

If you are familiar with the ActionScript language and interested in creating portable applications, this session will help you through some of the specifics and hurdles of developing for mobiles devices. Many tips and techniques will be covered. To name a few: Touch and Gesture events, screen orientation, geolocation, accelerometer, vector versus bitmaps, saving and retrieving data on the device, optimizing animation and scrolling, device resolution, text, debugging, architecture for one screen at a time and breadcrumb navigation. And there will be a surprise too.

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Veronique Brossier is Senior FlashEngineer at MTVNetworks and adjunct professor at ITP/New York University. She has worked on many applications for the world of art and entertainment. To name a few award-winning projects: The New York Visitor Center and the 9/11 Memorial site for Local Projects, NickLab for R/Greenberg Associates, Lifetime Open House strategy game for POP and Company 360degrees for Picture Projects, TourCast for SportsVision, Web Premiere Toons for Funny Garbage and Cartoon Network Online and the Hall of Biodiversity at the American Museum of National History.

She also enjoys writing technical papers, most recently some well received articles for InsideRIA on the Flash Text Engine and Flash to iPhone.

Brossier holds a Master\'s from New York University\'s Interactive Telecommunications Program and the C-PAC certificate from New York University\'s Computer Science department. Veronique is a French native living in New York for many years. She loves playing tennis and visits a new country every year.